OS1/24/40/22
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Bush aboon Traquair [Continued] | dwindled to five lonely trees comprehending all that remains, to mark the spot, which was so often propitious to the loves of the Murrays & Stewarts, during more pastoral times" - Chalmers Caledonia. The destructive acquisitiveness of modern sentimental pilgrims would we now have appropriated the last chip of the "five lonely trees" for Cumnock snuffboxes or other souvenirs - had not the consideration conservation of the present Lord Traquair led to the planting of a clump of wood fenced round the old relics. - |
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[Page] 22Traquair Parish
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DANIALSAN, JOANMUIR
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