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wood would be prevented. Thus, too, the blood-woods, fiddle-wood, 

 mahol, yellow Sanders, Brazilletto, and Yacca of Jamaica may 

 become important exports so soon as efficient carriage facilities from 

 the mountain forest fastnesses and the coast are established. This 

 island possesses 800,000 acres of forest, which, calculating at only 

 400 feet per acre, gives an annual production of 320,000,000 feet. 

 About 3,500,000 feet is cut yearly for building purposes, and only 

 about 40,000 feet is exported. 



CANADIAN FORESTRY. 



THE great timber-producing area of Canada has as yet only been 

 confined to the third and fourth forest zones of the Dominion, 

 the region of the white and red pine extending from Lake of the 

 Woods and Lake Nepigon to Anticosti, thence to the Georgian 

 Bay, Lower Ottawa river, and Nova Scotia ; and the region of 

 beech and maple occupying those parts of Ontario and Quebec 

 lying south of the zone of tlie pines. Immediately west of Lake 

 Superior, many of the most important trees, as white pine, basswood, 

 red oak, and sugar maple, are no longer found. The prairie appears 

 to form a barrier to westward distribution. As pointed out in 

 another article, the Canadian Pacific Railway in its westward course 

 passes through the other two forest regions ; first that of the poplars, 

 terminating in that of the Douglas fir. Of 95 species of forest 

 trees in Canada, Ontario has 65 species, of which 61 are found in 

 the districts bordering on Lake Erie. Of these 65 species, 52 

 extend eastward to the Province of Quebec, 35 are found on the 

 easterly and westerly sides of Lake Superior, whilst only 14 range 

 westerly into the prairie country at and beyond the Eed Eiver. 



Again, in British Columbia there are 3 5 species, of which only 

 7 are well distributed over the whole Dominion. Only 3 Canadian 

 trees are identical with European species — the chestnut, white birch, 

 and yew. 



Mr. Simmouds' tables of our imports of Canadian woods 

 sufficiently prove, from 1862 onwards, liow the lumber trade has 

 been of a highly speculative character. Take the following instances 

 in loads : — 



