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which may be called classical ground, and arc abundantly 

 celebrated in Scottish story, are rocky and precipitous, 

 rising in many parts above the bed of the river from two 

 to three hundred feet in height, and every where wooded 

 to the top. It was to the inaccessible caverns, natural or 

 artificial, of these woody banks, that the renowned and 

 patriotic Wallace used to retire, and found a secure refuge 

 from his own and his country's enemies. It was also, as 

 it is said, in the same fastnesses that the well-known and 

 intrepid Balfour of Burley, in a later age, was often able 

 to set at defiance the utmost diligence of his pursuers. 

 In the present day, the fine scenery of the Mouse is 

 rendered familiar to the traveller on the great line of the 

 Carlisle and Stirling road, as he views it with wonder 

 from the stupendous Bridge of Oartland, at nearly a 

 hundred and thirty feet above the bed of the stream. 



Although Cleghorn partakes in the woody character of 

 this singular and romantic district, and has been abun- 

 dantly planted according to the fashion of a former day, 

 yet there are many parts of the park, and especially near 

 the house, where the aid of the transplanting machuie 

 might be called in with great advantage. This idea had 

 frequently occurred to the good taste and discernment of 

 Mr Lockhart ; but his occasional residence in a neigh- 

 bouring county, and the reports which had readied his 

 ears of the vast expense of my method of transplanting, 

 (which was confidently said to amount to ten and fifteen 

 guineas per tree,) for a considerable time prevented him 

 from entertaining any serious thoughts of attempting the 

 experiment. 



In the month of December last, this gentleman, who is 

 as intelligent in planting as he is in every other branch of 

 rural economy, applied to me to learn if I could put him 

 in the way of procuring a few large trees, on any reason- 



