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of iiiiiic, in whose Iransplantiiifr experiments I liave had 

 some concern, and on that account I can spealc of them more 

 particularly, and from personal knowledge. This is William 

 Elliot Lockhart, Esq. of Cleghorn, representative in parha- 

 ment for the county of Selkirk, and whose residence is at 

 Cleghorn House, in Lanarkshire. 



Cleghorn is situated on the steep and romantic banks of 

 the river Mouse, which falls into the Clyde, a little below the 

 town of Lanark. The banks of this stream, which may be 

 called classical ground, and are abundantly celebrated in 

 Scottish story, are rocky and precipitous, rising in many parts 

 above the bed of the river, from two to three hundred feet in 

 height, and every where wooded to the top. It was to the 

 inaccessible caverns, natural or artificial, of these woody 

 banks, that the renowned and patriotic Wallace used to retire 

 and found a secure refuge from his own, and his country's 

 enemies. It was also, as it is said, in the same fastnesses, 

 that the well-known and intrepid Balfour of Burleigh, in a 

 later age, was often able to set at defiance the utmost dili- 

 gence of his pursuers. In the present day, the fine scenery 

 of the Mouse is rendered familiar to the traveller, on the great 

 line of the Carlisle and Stirling road, as he views it with won 

 der from the stupendous bridge of Cartlaud, at nearly an 

 hundred-and-thirty feet above the bed of the stream. 



Although Cleghorn partakes in the woody character of this 

 singular and romantic district, and has been abundantly 

 planted, according to the fashion of a former day, yet there 

 are many parts of the park, and especially near the house, 

 where the aid of the transplanting machine might be called 

 in, with great advantage. This idea had frequently occurred 

 to the good taste and discernment of Mr. Lockhart ; but his 

 occasional residence in a neighbouring county, and the re- 

 ports, which had reached his cars, of lite vast expense of my 

 u Id hod of transplanting (which was confidently said to 

 amonni to ton and fifteen frnineac por trro). for n considornltic 



