568 LIST OF REMARKABLE TREES. [App. II. 



F. IN. 



At Lord Morton's, Aberdour, Fife, there is a 

 Scots elm, which measured, March 10. 1812, 

 forty feet length of bole, and in girth 11 Q 



Two elms at Yair, in Selkirkshire, measure, 

 each, at the surface of the ground (17) - 13 



An elm tree in the parish of Roxburgh, in 

 Tiviotdale, called the Trusting Tree, was mea- 

 sured in 1796, and its girth, at four feet from 

 the surface of the ground, found to be (18) SO Q 



THE BEECH. 



A beech at Leslie House, in Fifeshire, mea- 

 sured, in March 1812, by estimation, 56 feet 

 to the branches, and was in girth, at breast 

 high . 11 



Another, at the same place, is 30 feet of bole, 

 and, at the same height from the ground, in 

 girth - 13 8 



Another, at breast high, at the same place and 

 time, measured in circumference - 15 



Another, at same height, with a trunk 45 feet, 

 was in girth 10 2 



Another, at same height, with a trunk 60 feet 10 



Near the Abbey of Balmerino, on die banks 

 of the river Tay, a beech tree, measured in 

 1793, was found to be in girth (19) 12 7 



A beech at Inverary, whose stem was 12 feet 

 in length, and the diameter of its head 90 feet, 

 had a trunk whose circumference was (20) 14- 



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17) Selkirkshire Report, p. 287. 



18) Statistical Account, vol. XIX. p. 134. 



19) Id. vol. IX. p. 225. 



0) Argyleshire Report, p. 14& 



