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istration might check the indiscriminate destruction 
of the woods, without, perhaps, lessening the rate of 
the present yield; in what manner numerous latent 
industrial resources of our ranges might be speedily 
and successfully developed, and a higher revenue thus 
be raised by the state ; in what manner this increased 
income could be best employed, to maintain orenrich 
the forests, or to raise woods where naturally none 
existed ; and by what new means prosperous occupa- 
tion might be afforded to many a happy family in the 
still and salubrious sylvan recesses of this country. 
And here I would at once remark, that for any ad- 
ministrative organization to watch over our forest 
interests we must follow an independent path of our 
own in this young country, because the systems of 
forest management adopted with so much advantage 
in Germany, France, and Scandinavia are here appli- 
eable only to a very limited extent. This must be at 
once apparent to any one who will reflect on the dis- 
parity which exists between our clime, our native 
tree vegetation, our present ratio of population and 
value of labor, as compared with similar conditions of 
the older and far more densely inhabited countries of 
middle and northern Europe, not to speak of the very 
much wider scope which, for the selection of trees for 
our future use, the isothermal zone of Victoria allows. 
On the latter subject our Acclimatization Society has 
recently published the views which I entertain in ref- 
erence to the many various trees eligible for the geo- 
_ graphic latitudes of a colony like,ours.* Next I pro- 
_ceed to give, though very briefly, only an outline of 
the special system of administration, which I would 
* Appendix to the Annual Report of the Vict. Acclimat. Soc., 1870-71. 
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