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Heath, moorland, and barren sandy wastes Hectares. 
(Landes), . : ‘ : , - 3,898,530 
Uncultivated, rocky, and mountainous 
tracts, : : : : : . 1,972,994 
Marshy lands, : : d #1691273 
Turf-bogs, : 4 : : ; 38,292 
6,226,189 
(= 15,378,686 acres). 
Under the terms of a law of 1882, the inquiry made regarding 
the mountain tracts which should be acquired and planted by 
the State—an inquiry now approaching completion at an early 
date—shows that about 345,140 “hectares (=852,495 acres) are 
thus classifiable, namely :— 
Hectares. 
In 66 Alpine districts, . : : : : . 211,948 
In 40 Cevennes and central mountain-range districts, 95,342 
In 18 Pyrenean districts, . : ; ; : . . 57,050 
124 districts, ; i : : ; - 345,140 
And of this area the State has already acquired 395,715 acres, 
or not far from one-half, for planting. For each locality a 
definite plan of operations is submitted, sanctioned, and worked 
up to; and year by year a report is drawn up for each district, 
giving details of —(1) expenditure on acquisition ; (2) the history 
and the results of work done; (3) details of work; and (4) 
expenditure on work. For twenty-one years these operations 
have been steadily pursued, the lowest expenditure having been 
£47,152 in 1875, and the highest £160,152 in 1890, while for 
the last ten years it has averaged well over £ 120,000. 
In the Revue des Eaux et Foréts, the early numbers for 1905 
contain two interesting papers on the past history and the 
present condition of the woodlands. Mr Tessier’s article traces 
their history downwards from the early Celtic time, when there 
was no proprietorship in woods, through the Roman period, 
when the trees and other products were still nobody’s property, 
and the land was divided into fundi, each fundus being the 
holding of one egues, with all his vassals and slaves. During 
the Middle Ages, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the last 
traces of Gallo-Roman proprietorship of small holdings dis- 
