London to John C? Croat's. 371 



Murray's red book guides in his baud, would be likely 

 to say. But tbe choir was rebuilt and fitted up for 

 worship by the late Duke of Atholl at the expense 

 of about 5,000. 



Of this duke I must say a few words, for he has left 

 the greenest monument to his memory that a man ever 

 left over his grave. He did something more and better 

 than roofing the choir of a ruined cathedral. He roofed 

 a hundred hills and valleys with a larch-and-fir-work 

 that will make them as glorious and beautiful as Lebanon 

 forever. One of the most illustrious and eloquent of 

 the Iroquois aristocracy was a chief called Corn-planter. 

 This Duke of Atholl should be named and known for 

 evermore as the great Tree-planter of Christendom. 

 We have already dwelt upon the benefaction that such 

 a man leaves to coming generations. This Scotch 

 nobleman virtually founded a new order of knighthood 

 far more useful and honorable than the Order of the 

 Grarter. To talk of garters f why, he not only put 

 the cold, ragged, shivering hills of Scotland into garters, 

 but into stockings waist high, and doublets and bonnets 

 and shoes of beautifully green and thick fir-plaid. He 

 planted 11,000 square acres with the larch alone ; and 

 thousands of these acres stood up edgewise against 

 mountains and hills so steep that the planters must 

 have spaded the holes with ropes around their waists 

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