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by the Inverness road, which the Duke of Atholl informs me are probably part 

 of the booty carried off by his ancestors in 1684 from Inveraray, as described in 

 Chronicles of the Atholl Family, by the present Duke.^ Nothing can better illus- 

 trate the importance which was paid to trees and planting even at this early 

 period, when the Highlands were hardly civilised ; than that so many exotic trees 

 should have existed at Inveraray, and that it should have been thought worth while 

 to carr) them to such a distance when wheeled carriages could not have traversed 

 the country. 



An immense Scots pine, which I have not yet been able to visit, grows at 

 Guisachan, Inverness-shire, now the property of Lord Portsmouth, whose forester, Mr. 

 Davidson, informs me that in February 1907 it was 53 feet 10 inches high and 16 

 feet 8 inches in girth at the ground, and 15 feet 7 inches at 5 feet. At 11 feet from 

 the ground, below the first branch, it is 16 feet 10 inches in girth. The trunk has 

 been cut into at the base, which is believed by old people living near to have been 

 done by smugglers, as an illicit whisky-still once existed near it. A drawing of this 

 tree was made for the late Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, of which I have a copy. 

 Mr. E. EUice tells me that there are a number of very large old pines in the 

 Guisachan Woods, girthing over 14 feet. 



Mr. E. Ellice of Invergarry informs me that there are a considerable number 

 of old native Scots pines at that place, among them one which attracted the late 

 Mr. Gladstone's attention, and of which he sends me a sketch, with the following 

 measurements : Height, 70 to 80 feet ; girth at the ground, sog- feet ; at 5 feet, 

 16 feet 3 inches; at 10 feet, 15 feet 9 inches; at 13 feet, 17 feet. A figure of this 

 will appear in Vol. IV. Other trees near it measure 14 feet 3 inches, 12 feet 

 10 inches, and 12 feet 9 inches ; and these appear to be the parents of many more 

 which may be divided, according to their age, into three classes : those of 1 20 to 

 150 years, of which there are some hundreds; those of from 80 to 100, of which 

 there may be 15,000 to 20,000 ; and younger trees. 



The finest forest in this locality is in Glen Malie, on Lochiel's property, 



' " In 1684 or 1685 the Marquis of Atholl did carry out of the orchard enclosures and shrubberies at Inveraray 



, s, d, Scots 

 600 Silver and Spanish fir trees, 6 years' growth ...... 1800 



500 Pinaster trees, 12 years' growth 



500 Pine trees, 10 years' growth 



400 Yew trees, 16 years' growth 



6000 Holland trees (holly) . 



600 Beech trees 



2000 Lime trees, 4 years 



400 Buckthorn, 8 years 



600 Black and White Poplars, 13 years 



400 Chestnut 



200 Horse Chestnut 



300 Walnut . . 



200 Fir trees, 5 years 



20,000 Ash, Plane, and Elm trees . 



200 Pear and Apple trees 



200 Plum trees 



300 Cherry. 



1000 Apple and Pear stocks 



This claim was settled for ;^i3,ooo Scots or ;^I333, 6s. 8<1." Chronicles of Athoh Family, i. 265. 

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500 



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266 13 4 

 1800 



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120 



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266 13 4 



200 



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400 

 2400 



400 



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 3000 



;f 13,553 6 8 Scots. 



