70 OUTLINES OF FORESTRY. 



657, gives the following description of the raft of 

 the Red River : 



" The quantity of wood brought down by some American 

 rivers is very great. The well-known natural ' raft' obstruct- 

 ing the Bed Kiver had a length, in 1854, of thirteen miles, and 

 was increasing at the rate of one and a half to two miles a 

 year, from the annual accessions. The lower end, which was 

 then fifty-three miles above Shreveport, had been gradually 

 moving up stream, from the decay of the logs, and formerly 

 was at Natchitoches, if not still farther down the stream. 

 Both this stream and the other carry great numbers of the 

 logs to the delta." 



by James D. Dana. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor 

 and Co., Publishers. Triibner & Co., London. Pp. 911. 



