a country of Pine forests, but these latter had been 

 largely replaced by Birch. The meaning of that was 

 that when Pine forests were felled without provision 

 being made for the reproduction of the Pines, Birch 

 trees grew up in their stead. The beautiful countries 

 on both shores of the Bosphorus, once the home of 

 the greatest nations, and the scenes of the greatest 

 events of history were now but the shadow of their 

 former selves, solely on account of the reckless 

 destruction of their forests. The once famous harbour 

 of Ephesus has silted up because of the destruction 

 of the forests near the sources of the rivers which 

 flowed into the sea at that point. The sylvan 

 glories of Cyprus, too, the latest region which had 

 passed under British sway, had entirely departed. 

 After alluding to the aridity and sterility which 

 had been brought about in Palestine and Persia 

 by the destruction of their ancient forests. Sir Eichard 

 Temple passed on to British India, where, he said, the 

 English nation possessed a forest department greater 

 than that of any other people in the world. Although 

 the forest department was far short of what it should 

 be, it was among the administrative glories of England. 

 There were 75,000 square miles of forests there, of 

 which 25,000 were under scientific care, and the 

 remaining 50,000 were under toterable care and pre- 

 servation. 



Sir Richard Temple showed that otherwise forestry 

 was not cultivated, other countries having already lost 



