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divided in bold sweeping lines. The foliage, though appearing late, was, and, indeed, slill is, 

 abundant and beautiful. But, some days before tbe 2.W of July, W2i, its great southern limb 

 was broken down bv a high wind ; and, although the ruin thus created was sutliciently deplorable, yet 

 it was strikingly siiblimo." {Lauder's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 8'J. and K3.) A drawing of this tree, made 

 by Mr. J. Steven, drawing-master, Elgin, has been kindly sent to us by William M'l^eotl, Esq., 

 from which fig. 1049. is an engraving to a scale of I in. to V2 ft. The branch broken ofl' was about 

 30 ft. long. The cavity in the interior of the trunk is of a regular conc.like shape, terminating in a 

 point, and is lift, in diameter at the t>ottom, and lift. high. An a.sh tree in the churchyard of 

 Kilmalie, in I^chaber, the parish church of the Ixichiel family, burnt down during the troubles 

 in IT-tii, was long considered as the largest and most remarkable tree in Scotland. Us remains were 

 measured in October, 17tH, and, at the ground, the circumference was no less than 58 ft. (IValker's 

 Essays, p. 17.1 This tree stood on a deep rich soil, only about 30 ft. above the level of the sea, 

 in Ix)chiel, with a small rivulet running within a few paces of it {Sang.) An ash tree near Bonhill 

 House, in Dumbartonshire, which is surrounded with a sloping bank of earth, about 3 ft. in 

 height! measured in circumference, in .September, 1784, at 4 ft. above the general surface of the 

 ground, .H ft. 1 in. The proprietor has fitted up a room in the inside of it, with benches around, 

 and glass windows. The diameter of the room is 8 ft. 5 in., and its roof is near 11 ft. in height. 

 Sir T. V>. Lauder informs us that 18 people can dine in this tree; that, though decayed at the 

 heart, it lives in the bark, and forms a great deal of new wood; and that the trunk, which is a 

 vast mass, is covered with fre^h vigorous branches. [I.audcr's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 2ri5.) A few yards from 

 Cessford Castle, in Roxburghshire, there is a venerable ash tree, which measures in circumference, 

 at the base, '27 ft. 8 in. An ash near the church of Logierait, in Perthshire, measured, at 4 ft from 

 the ground, in 1770, 16 ft. The same tree, measured in March, 1812, was found to be, at breast 

 high, 21 ft. (iin. in circumference. {Sang.) An ash at Newbottle, in Mid-Lothian, standing east 

 from the house, near the river, in the month of July, 1789, measured in circumference lift. 4in. 

 {Walker's Essays, p. 12.) An ash in the Island of Loch Leven, in Fifcshirc, in Septeml)er, 1796, 

 measured in circumference, at 4 ft. from the ground, 12 ft. An ash at Lord Morton's, near Aberdeen, 

 in Fifcshire, measured in March, 1812, extended in length of bole Soft.; and in girt, at 4 ft. high, 

 10ft. .Jin. An ash tree at Wemyss Castle, in Fifeshire, growing about 100 yards from the door of 

 the Castle, measured, on the 13th of March, 1812, 35 ft. bole ; and in circumference, at 4 ft. from the 

 ground, 15 ft. 3 in. At Biel, in East Lothian, near the East Bridge, an aged ash was in girt, at 

 breast height, Julv 28. 1812, 11 ft. 4 in. in circumference. An ash at Whittinghame.in East I>othian, 

 was in girt, in 1819, 12 ft. 9 in. {Song's Kicol, p. 547.) An ash at Yair, in Selkirkshire, measured, at the 

 surface of the ground, 12 ft. 9 in. in circumference. {Selkirkshire Rep., p. 284 ) The Glammis ash 

 tree at Castle Iluntlev, in Perthshire, measured in circumference, at the ground, 27 ft ; and, at a yard 

 high, 17 ft. {Stat. Account Scot., vol. xix. p. 467.1 At the river of Blackburn, in the parish of Castle, 

 town', in Roxburghshire, the trunk of an old ash measured in circumference 18 ft. {Jbid., vol. xvi. 

 p. 79.) An ash at Midstrath, in the parish of Bins, measured, at the ground, 20 ft. {Ibid., vol. ix. 

 p. 129 ) An ash near Deskford, in the county of Banff, called St. John's Tree, measures in girt 

 24 ft. 5| in. {Ibid., vol. viii. p. 36.) 



accorded Asli Trees in Ireland. Arthur Young, in his Irisb Tour, mentions ash trees of (0 ft.and 

 80 ft. in height, which were only of 35 years' growth. The stem of an ash on the banks of the Avon- 

 more was about 14 ft round, and carried nearly the same dimensions for 18 ft. in height. An ash at 

 Dunganston was 12 ft. round, with a clear trunk of 30 ft., and arms extending nearly 90 ft. on each 



