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by the Inverness road, which the Duke of Atholl informs me are probably part 
of the booty carried off by his ancestors in 1684 from Inveraray, as described in 
Chronicles of the Atholl Family, by the present uke.‘ Nothing can better illus- 
trate the importance which was paid to trees and planting even at this early 
period, when the Highlands were hardly civilised; than that so many exotic trees 
should have existed at Inveraray, and that it should have been thought worth while 
to carry them to such a distance when wheeled carriages could not have traversed 
the country. 
An immense Scots pine, which I have not yet been able to visit, grows at 
Guisachan, Inverness-shire, now the property of Lord Portsmouth, whose forester, Mr. 
Davidson, informs me that in February 1907 it was 53 feet 10 inches high and 16 
feet 8 inches in girth at the ground, and 15 feet 7 inches at 5 feet. At 11 feet from 
the ground, below the first branch, it is 16 feet 10 inches in girth, The trunk has 
been cut into at the base, which is believed by old people living near to have been 
done by smugglers, as an illicit whisky-still once existed near it. A drawing of this 
tree was made for the late Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, of which I have a copy. 
Mr. E. Ellice tells me that there are a number of very large old pines in the 
Guisachan Woods, girthing over 14 feet. 
Mr. E. Ellice of Invergarry informs me that there are a considerable number 
of old native Scots pines at that place, among them one which attracted the late 
Mr. Gladstone’s attention, and of which he sends me a sketch, with the following 
measurements :—Height, 70 to 80 feet; girth at the ground, 20% feet; at 5 feet, 
16 feet 3 inches; at 10 feet, 15 feet 9 inches; at 13 feet, 17 feet. A figure of this 
will appear in Vol. IV. Other trees near it measure 14 feet 3 inches, 12 feet 
10 inches, and 12 feet 9 inches ; and these appear to be the parents of many more 
which may be divided, according to their age, into three classes: those of 120 to 
150 years, of which there are some hundreds ; those of from 80 to 100, of which 
there may be 15,000 to 20,000; and younger trees. 
The finest forest in this locality is in Glen Malie, on Lochiel’s property, 
1 «In 1684 or 1685 the Marquis of Atholl did carry out of the orchard enclosures and shrubberies at Inveraray— 
4; 5. da. Scots 
600 Silver and Spanish fir trees, 6 years’ growth 1800 
500 Pinaster trees, 12 years’ growth 500 
500 Pine trees, 10 years’ growth 500 
266 13 4 
400 Yew trees, 16 years’ growth : . : 
6000 Holland trees (holly) . ‘ : F J , : ; 1800 
600 Beech trees 600 
2000 Lime trees, 4 years 400 
400 Buckthorn, 8 years 120 
600 Black and White Poplars, 13 years 200 
400 Chestnut 7 , : 266 13 4 
200 Horse Chestnut 200 
300 Walnut 200 
200 Fir trees, 5 years : 400 
20,000 Ash, Plane, and Elm trees . 2400 
200 Pear and Apple trees 
200 Plum trees : a 
300 Cherry. F : ps 
1000 Apple and Pear stocks 
4133553 6 8 Scots. 
This claim was settled for £13,000 Scots or £1333, 6s. 8d.”—Chronicles of Atholi Family, i, 265. 
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