 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 páginas
...rapid current flows beneath its walls. The trunk of the tree, with the knotty protuberances of its 2x2 branches, is still shewn in a vaulted apartment, at...branch out beneath the floor, and its top penetrates through the vaulted arch of stone above, in such a manner, that it agpears, beyond dispute, the tree... | |
 | Richard Pococke, Daniel William Kemp - 1887 - 492 páginas
...remains a singular memorial of superstition. The trunk of the tree, with its branches, is still shown in a vaulted apartment at the bottom of the principal...branch out beneath the floor, and its top penetrates through the vaulted arch of stone above, in such a manner as to make it appear, beyond dispute, that... | |
 | Scottish History Society - 1887 - 462 páginas
...remains a singular memorial of superstition. The trunk of the tree, with its branches, is still shown in a vaulted apartment at the bottom of the principal...branch out beneath the floor, and its top penetrates through the vaulted arch of stone above, in such a manner as to make it appear, beyond dispute, that... | |
 | Frank Roy Fraprie - 1907 - 512 páginas
...beneath its walls. The trunk of the tree, with the knotty protuberances of its branches, is still shown in a vaulted apartment at the bottom of the principal...branch out beneath the floor and its top penetrates through the vaulted arch of stone above, in such a manner as to make it appear, beyond dispute, that... | |
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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... 