grounds, burning the heath, or any brush-wood which can be collected about the stocks, is found to have an excellent effect. After the woods are cut, they are, for 5 or 6 years, carefully preserved from cattle. At that period, at 10 or 12, and at 15 or 16 years of age, they are weeded or cleared from broom, briars, or whatever else is prejudicial to them, and properly thinned. The firft weeding is much for the benefit of the wood, but makes no immediate returns to the proprietor. The hoops got at the second will bear about one fourth of the expence; and at the third, will do fomething more than clear the whole. Trees of every kind thrive in this country amazingly. An oak in the Bandry wood 96 years old, is 7 feet 3 inches in girth two feet above the ground, has in its trunk, which is 21 feet high, 45 folid feet of timber, and is computed to have 4 bolls of bark. Another oak near the houfe of Camstraddan, which is about 80 years old, is 7 feet 2 inches in girth two feet above the ground, has in its trunk 36 feet of folid timber, and is computed to have 2 bolls of bark. But the trees of the greateft fize in this parish are at Rofedoe. A yew tree there, at the height of 2 feet above the ground is 12 feet, and a fycamore, at the fame height, 13 feet in girth. is uncertain.

Their age

The natural woods of this country confift of oak, ash, yew, holly, mountain ash, birch, hazel, aspen, alder, crab, hawthorn, and willows. Oaks thrive only in dry ground. Ashes abound on the banks of the lake and near rills of water. Yews are rarely found but in the iflands. Hollies are fcattered through the woods, and mountain ashes often grow in elevated fituations. The remaining kinds are lefs valuable, and frequently, therefore, diftinguished by the name of barren timber The other indigenous plants are nearly the fame as in other parts of the Highlands, in fimilar foils and fitua

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tions. A few are to be found, which are usually confidered as rare; as, ifoetes lacuftris, or quillwort; fubularia aquatica, or awlwort; alifma ranunculoides, or leffer water plantain ; cfmunda regalis, or flowering fern; lichen Burgefti, or crowned lichen, &c.

Wild Animals.-The following is a lift of the wild animals, obferved for fome years paft in this part of the country. The names of fuch as are migratory, are distinguished by an afterisk (*) before them.

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