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four feet and a half in diameter. They are 

 foldj I have heard, on the fpot often for five, 

 or fix guineas a tree. The timber, which they 

 yield, is refmous, heavy, and of a dark-red 

 colour. Confiderable quantities of it are frill 

 carried into the lower parts of Scotland, in 

 floats down the Dee, when that river hap- 

 pens to be fwoln with rains. The forefts 

 of Braemar, and Invercald are fuppofed to 

 be the remains of the ancient Caledonian 

 wood* 



In the county of Athol is the foreft of 

 Loch-rannoc -, and in that of Argyl, the 

 foreft of Loch-tulla, where Mr. Pennant 

 tells us, he faw the laft pines, which he 

 fuppofed to be of fpontaneous growth in 

 Scotland. 



In the county of Stirling lies the forefts 

 of that name; or Torwood, as it is often 

 called. Here the country, tho ftill abrupt, 

 and rough, begins to afTume a milder form. 

 Here too the oak begins to mix it's cheerful 

 verdure with the dark green tint of the. 



