120 AGRIcri/IIKAI, KKSOIKCES, 



l)ank.< (if their tiiluitaiifs ; also in tlie couutiv aiound SI. Guorge's- 

 Bay. TIr- i)iiiiri])al vaiictii-s of tlic nnligviinus foivst growths 

 are -whilf ]iiin-, white ami hlark >]>riii-c, lainarack nr larrh, fir, 

 vt'lhiw and wliitc hiri'li. The yt-llow liirdi, whidi ahomuls 

 largely in St. (ieorge"s Bay, i- said to hi- (-(jual in dviral)ility to- 

 Eiiglisli oak, and, witli the spnue.- and huvhcs, is adiiiirahly 

 adajited for shiii-l)nildiiig ]mr])OS('s. 



Thi' lumhi-r Irailc ah'i'ady ih^vedoju'd ly tlic portion of tlie 



new railway which lia> hecii coiiq^k-ti'd and oociated as far as- 



Exjiloits, furnislie-s anipU^ proof of tlic foic^t resonrcrs of tlie 



country, and gives good promise for the fntnic. — (Sir clmji. III.)- 



TIMIJKK OF THK OANDEK DISTRICT. 



The great vaUey of tlie (ianih-r is (h-stined to he tlie most ini- 

 jjortant Inndiering regifHi in tlie island. Its topography, soil and 

 tbrest growths have been alreaily touehed on in ('hai)tei- III. on 

 Beads and Bailways. The ( ieologieal report contains the fol- 

 lowing: — "Excejit where partially denuded hy fire, the whole 

 valley of the rivei', the shores of the lake and the Ijanks of the 

 tributaries are all denstdy clad by fVa-est, among the most con- 

 t>2)icuous trees of Avhich are pines, to all ai>pearance of the finest 

 description. Upon the sonth-west arm, and at various ]iarts of 

 the lake, groves of jjine may Ijc .seen where the average girth of 

 the trees is not much, if anything, less than nine feet. On about 

 one acre of Ptirface I measured 15 or 20 trees, the diameter of 

 ■which varied from two and a-lialf to four an<l a-half feet ; and 

 these, moreoA'er, wei'e straight, tall and sound, with stems run- 

 ning up symmetrically for upwards of fifty feet Avithout a lu-anch 

 or knot.-' The report estimated tlie available pine limits here at 

 850 square nules, including the valley of the ( lambo and Triton 

 river and the country along tin- south side of the lake and across 

 to Freshwater Bay. " 3fost, if not all, the pine here referi'cd to 

 is of the Avliite vaiiety, — I'iiuis >itrolnis, — proliably the most valu- 

 able S2)ecies for the juanniactnre of lumljer. Fires swejit over 

 many portions of this district, but the pine, though scorclied, 

 does not appear to l)e much injitrcd so long as it lemains 

 ^tandim:." 



