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diameter in one direction was seventeen feet 

 three inches, and the cross diameter twenty-one 

 feet. Its circumference at the ground, taken in 

 presence of Henry Butler, Esq., of Fascally, 

 and Mr. Campbell, collector of the Customs at 

 Fort William, was fifty-eight feet ! It stood in a 

 rich, deep soil, only about thirty feet above the 

 level of the sea, in Lochiel, with a small riyulet 

 running within a few paces of it. No informa- 

 tion could be obtained as to the exact size of the 

 trunk. A person present, who had been well 

 acquainted with the tree, described it as being of 

 vast bulk, but not tall, as it divided into three 

 great arms at about eight feet above the ground. 

 The place was visited again in 1771, when all 

 vestiges of the tree were obliterated. The cir- 

 cumference of this tree is greater even than that 

 of any Ash that has been yet noticed in any part 

 of Scotland. But if the Bonhill tree could be 

 measured at the ground, it would probably be 

 found to girth as much.' 



An Ash 400 years old at the presen time is 

 described by Mr. Hunter. It stands at Ochter- 

 tyre, Perthshire, and is thirty-four feet ten inches 



