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at one foot from the ground, and twenty feet 

 eight inches at five feet, with a spread of branches 

 of seventy, feet. The trunk is slit and hollow, 

 the aperture in the side being only large enough 

 to just insert the arm. Another at Carse of 

 Gowrie girths thirty-two feet at the base, twenty- 

 five feet at one foot from the ground, nineteen 

 feet at three feet from the ground, and seventeen 

 at five feet, the bole being twenty-seven feet long. 

 But these measurements are thrown into the 

 shade by those of an Ash at Logierait, in Perth- 

 shire, the girth of which is, at eleven feet from 

 the ground, twenty-two feet ; at three feet, forty 

 feet ; and at the ground, fifty-three and a half 

 feet ! The height of this tree is now sixty feet, 

 but Mr. Hunter says, ' The height is said to have 

 been ninety feet at one time, but the top was 

 blown away. There is an opening of five feet 

 nine inches on the south side, and th,e trunk is 

 perfectly hollow. Maimed as it is, it has still the 

 enormous girth of forty-seven feet seven inches 

 at one foot from the ground, and thirty-two feet 

 five inches at five feetj so that in its perfect 

 state it must have been a very great tree indeed. 



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