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Of the Larches now growing, recorded by Mr. 

 Hunter, one at Athole measures at the base 

 twenty-seven feet ; at one foot from the ground, 

 twenty-two feet seven inches ; and at three feet, 

 eighteen feet nine inches. This tree was planted 

 in 1738. At Freeland is one ninety-two feet high, 

 with a bole of twenty-four feet. At Kippendavie 

 a larch planted in 1738 girths eighteen feet at one 

 foot from the ground, and is eighty feet high. 

 Another, girthing sixteen feet three inches at one 

 foot from the ground, is 115 feet high. A height 

 of 120 feet is reached by a Larch at Dunalastan, 

 though its girth at one foot from the ground is 

 only ten feet three inches. Of one at Monzie 

 Castle Mr. Hunter says that it ' girths twenty- 

 six and a half feet at the surface of the ground, 

 at three feet the girth is eighteen feet, and at 

 five feet the girth is sixteen feet three inches. 

 The height is fully a hundred feet, and the 

 tree contains 380 cubic feet of timber.' 



'Maundrel tells us when he travelled in the 

 East/ remarks G-ilpin, ' a few of the old Cedars 

 of Lebanon were still left. He found them 

 among the snow, near the highest part of the 



