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where they stood too thick, but left the finest 

 trees standing; for these twenty trees his 

 Grace received one hundred guineas, being 

 at the rate of two shillings per foot. The 

 largest of the twenty trees measured one 

 hundred and five feet in length, five "feet 

 eleven inches in girth, at four feet from the 

 ground, and contained ninety-four square 

 feet of timber. One of the trees measured 

 one hundred and nine feet in length ; but 

 being drawn up by standing too close, did 

 not contain so much solid wood as the first. 



The lower range of the Grampian Hills, 

 which extend to Dunkeld, are in altitude 

 from one thousand to one thousand seven 

 hundred feet above the level of the sea ; and a 

 range of mountains, one thousand two hun- 

 dred feet above the level of the sea, is now 

 planted with larch. They are in general 

 barren and rocky, composed of mountain 

 schist, slate, and ironstone. Up to the height 

 of twelve hundred feet, larches are planted, 

 and grow luxuriantly ; where the Scotch fir, 

 formerly considered the hardiest tree of the 

 north, cannot rear its head. In considerable 

 tracts where fragments of shivered rocks are 

 strewed so thick that vegetation scarcely meets 

 the eye, the larch puts out as strong and vi- 

 gorous shoots as are to be found in the valleys 

 below, or in the most sheltered situations. 



