Note 313 — MAY.
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"An oak tree which grows by the side of a fine spring near the Castle of Dalhousie; very much observed by the country people, who give out that before any of the family died a branch fell from the Edgewell Tree. The old tree some few years ago fell altogether, but another sprang from the same root, which is now [1720] tall and flourishing; and lang be it sae."—Allan Ramsay's Works, vol. i. p. 329: "Stocks in 1720." 2 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1800.