voted to the axe, merely becaufe no other 

 means could be found, of obtaining, from its 

 towering fummit, this mod excellent cabbage. 



The variety of this tree found near the in- 

 flammable fpring, differsonlyin havingits thick 

 tuft of fibrous roots appear feveral feet out 

 of the ground, looking as if the tree, inftead 

 of taking root in the earth, was growing upon 

 another fhort trunk placed under it, as a bafe 

 or pedeftal, to fupport it from the foil : a cir- 

 cumftance which would feem to have arifcn 

 from thefe trees growing upon the fide of a 

 hill, and the earth being partially wafhed 

 from their roots by heavy rains. In all other 

 refpefts they are the fame as the reft of their 

 fpecies. 



After viewing the beauties of Scotland, 

 and feeing the inflammable fpring, and the tat 

 pits, we next went to Mount Hilloughby, and 

 afcended the higheft point of land in the 

 ifland ; and, from what I have faid of the 

 beauties of the part called Scotland, you will 

 believe that the profpecl from Hilloughby's 

 fummit muft be grand and delighting indeed. 



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