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fome of it's branches were feventy-five feet 

 high ; and extended feventy-two. In the 

 year 1755 when it was fit for nothing but 

 firewood, it was fold for fourteen pounds*. 



In Torwood, in the county of Sterling, 

 on a little knoll, ftand at this time, the 

 ruins of an oak, which is fuppofed to be the 

 largeft tree that ever grew in Scotland, The 

 trunk of it is now wholly decayed, and 

 hollow : but it is evident, from what remains, 

 that it's diameter could not have been lefs 

 than eleven or twelve feet. What it's age 

 may be, is matter only of conjecture: but 

 from fome circumftances, it is probably a 

 tree of great antiquity. The little knoll it 

 ftands on, is furrounded by a fwamp, over 

 which a caufeway leads to the tree, or rather 

 to a circle which feems to have run round 

 it. The veftiges of this circle, as well as 

 the caufeway, bear a plain refemblance to 

 thofe works which are commonly attributed 

 to the Druids. So that it is probable, this 



* See Huuhins's Ace. of Dorfetfhire, vol. i. with a print of it. 



tree 



