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which was said to be as old as the foundation of 
the citadel. Stuart supposed it to have stood 
in the portico of the Temple of Pandrosus (called 
by him the Pandroseum), from the circumstance 
of the air necessary for its support, which could 
here be admitted between the Caryatides; but 
instances of trees that have been preserved 
unto a very great age, within the interior of an 
edifice inclosed by walls, may be adduced. 
The building was of course erected subsequently 
to the growth of the tree, and was in some 
degree adapted to its form. A very curious 
relic of this kind may be seen at Cawdor 
Castle, near Inverness, in Scotland; in which build- 
ing a hawthorn-tree of great antiquity is very 
remarkably preserved. Tradition relates, that 
the original proprietor of the edifice was directed 
by a dream to build a castle exactly upon the 
spot where the tree was found ; and this was 
done in such a manner as to leave no doubt but 
that the tree existed long before the structure 
was erected. The trunk of this tree, with the 
knotty protuberances left by its branches, is still 
shewn 5 in a vaulted apartment at the bottom of 
the principal tower: its roots branch out beneath 
(3) The author saw it in 1797. The name of the building, as it is 
now pronounced, is not Cawdor, but Calder Castle. 
