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into better condition. Close by, on the steep slope of a hill, 
there is a thick mixture of beech and spruce in close canopy, 
with clean healthy stems and well-developed crowns of foliage, 
from which the dead leaves of former years lie thickly strewn 
on the well-protected and humose soil. Farther on, following 
a path fringed, but not too thickly or regularly, by mountain- 
ash and maples, there is a vantage-point from which an 
extensive view is to be had looking northwards over the 
fertile plain of the Eger towards the distant range of the 
Giant Mountains, the boundary between Bohemia and Bavaria, 
between Austria and Germany. And beyond that again, 
there are masses of mixed silver fir and spruce, and Scots 
pine and larch, all treated more or less on the “group 
system” of natural or artificial regeneration, and enlivened by 
the silvery gleam of the smooth bark of birch trees. Where 
there is a limy out-crop here and there, there will often be 
found a mixture of Austrian pine, larch, Weymouth pine, maple, 
and sycamore, etc.; while the lower and more fertile tracts 
along the valley of the Tepl abound in fine stretches of mixed 
beech and oak, along with ash, elm, and other hardwoods and 
softwoods; and, of course, poplars, willows, alders, and birch 
prevail on the moister portions more particularly suited for 
them. 
As the main object of management is esthetic, in order that 
the woods may best serve as a part of the cure to supplement, 
or complement, the action of the mineral waters, while sylvi- 
cultural considerations are merely of secondary importance (and, 
indeed, can hardly even be considered of much importance at 
all, as the small net income derived is reserved for buying land 
for planting, and thus rounding off the boundaries of the town- 
woods), the whole woodland area has been divided into two 
zones, to each of which a somewhat different method is applied. 
The first of these, extending to about 670 acres, or a little over 
I square mile, consists of those portions of Stadtgut and Soos 
immediately adjacent to the town, and comprising several rocky 
eminences from which fine views are obtainable (“The Stag’s 
Leap,” “ Franz-Joseph’s Hill,” ‘‘ Three-Cross Hill,” “* King Otto’s 
Hill,” “Life Everlasting,” ‘Findlater’s Temple,” etc.). These 
consist for the greater part of broad-leaved woods, interspersed 
with groups of conifers. 
The woods in this zone are treated entirely by the system 
