564 LIST OF REMARKABLE TREES. [App. ll. 



trees have been long healthy, and in which they have 

 Arrived at the most considerable size, that we are direct- 

 ed with certainty in the operations of rearing timber to 

 the greatest possible perfection. 



THE OAK. 



F. IN. 



An oak tree, at Killearn Place, in Stirlingshire, 

 in 1795, measured in circumference (1) 12 



Another at Cockwood, in Annandale, in the 

 month of April 1773, measured, at six feet from 

 the ground, in circumference 14? 



Tin's tree was about 60 feet high, and suppos- 

 ed to be about 230 years old. (2) 



At Blairquosh, in the- parish of Strathblane, 

 Stirlingshire, an oak measured, m 1796, in cir- 

 cumference (3) - - - 15 



The remains of a decayed oak, upon the road 

 between Inverness and Strbntian in Argyleshire, 

 were measured in October 1764, and found to 

 be in girth, at a foot above the ground (34) - 173 



Wallace's oak, so named for ages, must have 

 been a large tree 500 years ago. It was situated 

 in a wet clay soil, in the Tor-wood, near Falkirk, 

 and in 1771 was supposed to be in girth, at four 

 feet above the ground - ... 22 



No trace of this venerable tree now remains. 



The 



1) Stat. Acct. Vol. XVI. p. 3: 



2) Walker's Essays on Nat. Hist, and Rural Econ. p. 4. 



3) Stat. Acct. Vol. XVIII. p. 580. 



4) Walker's Essays, p. 6. He says, that many remains of oaks wero 

 observed, approaching to the same size, in this valley of Morven; situated 

 among rank heather, in deep peat-earth, lying above banks of mountain, 

 gravel* 



