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speclablc owner, neither have I lately seen the place from the 

 river : but I understand, that they consist of oaks, beeches, 

 limes, elms, and horsechestnuts, of which some are more 

 than thirty feet in height, and ten, twelve, and fourteen 

 inches in diameter. 



The trees were all transferred on the preservative princi- 

 )ile. They are thirty-two in number ; and the gross amount 

 of the expense is L. 25 5s. But, deducting L. 2 for the removal 

 of earth, subsequently to the planting, which was not a con- 

 stituent part of the work, the actual cost of each tree is 

 nearly 14s. This sum, considering the magnitude of several 

 of the trees, and that it was Mr. Watson's first essay, he has 

 reason to regard as a cheap purchase for such effects. And 

 most men so circumstanced, we may venture to say, would 

 have given three times the money, for the striking increase 

 of comfort and seclusion, which, independently altogether of 

 picturesque considerations, was in this way communicated to 

 tlieir residences. 



The fourth person whom I shall specify, is Mr. James 

 Hamilton, overseer to Sir Charles M. Lockhart Lee, Bart, 

 in the county of Lanark. That gentleman, who has a fine 

 place in the neighbourhood of the county town of Lanark, 

 is at the head of the ancient family of Lee and Cartland, 

 whose representative, in the beginning of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury, Sir Simon Lockhart, is said to have carried King 

 Robert Bruce's heart in a golden box, from the Holy 

 Land. 



Owing to Sir Charles's residence in another county, during 

 a great part of the years 1826 and 1827, he could not per- 

 sonally attend to the spirited improvements that were carried 

 on at Lee : he therefore intrusted the management of them 

 to a person, every way adequate to the task, namely, his 

 judicious overseer, Mr. James Hamilton, who, in the spring of 

 the year first mentioned, was sent over to this place, in order 

 to receive some instructions from me, in the art of trtmsplant- 



