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of Edinburgh^ Session 1872-73. 
fragments may still be seen. The fifth is said to have been first 
brought to light in 1858, and to have been subsequently covered 
with the detritus of the quarry, till it was lately uncovered again 
by the operations of the quarry having returned to its neighbour- 
hood ; and it now lies in its place half displayed to the extent 
of 22 feet. The sixth has been found only a few months ago in 
the very bottom of the quarry, where, for the present, little more 
is seen of it than a cross section, level with the containing rock. 
There was also lately found, not far from the second last fossil, 
but not at all attached to it, or otherwise proved to have belonged 
to it, a “ branch,” as the workmen thought, eight feet in length 
and five inches across. No trace has yet been found of what 
became of No. 3, or of either it or of No. 4 having been examined 
by any scientific inquirer. 
The succeeding remarks relate cursorily to No. 4, at Barnton 
House, but chiefly to those now shown in the quarry, and to the 
so-called “branch.” 
Mr Witliam’s fossil of 1830 lay with its lower end downwards, 
without either branches or roots. The lowest 12 feet are still 
in excellent preservation in front of the Botanic Garden Herbarium - 
House ; and what appears to be the next 18 feet is in equally 
good preservation before that part of the Museum of Science and Art 
now building. The fossil now principally shown in the quarry is some- 
what curved, apparently from several fractures occasioned in situ. 
It lies in a west and easterly direction, slightly southward, with the 
cord of its whole visible length inclined to the horizon at an angle 
of about 60°, that of the surrounding rock being only 28°. As no 
record remains of what has been lost of its upper part, and the 
quarrying has not reached its termination below, its position in 
relation to that of the living tree cannot be positively settled. Its 
present top must be 120 feet under the upper surface of the rock of 
the quarry.* The other (No. 6), of which little more than the cross 
section is now visible,* seems to lie much in the same direction as 
* June 30, 1873. — The upper fossil, No. 5, has been pulled down, and is 
about to be removed to the British Museum. Four feet of the lower one, No. 
6, have been conveyed to the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. One block of 
the former is 14 feet in girth. The latter, which is rudely cylindrical, 
measures exactly 8 feet 9 inches in circumference. Its angle of inclination' 
was accurately ascertained before removal to be 61°. 
