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other spots in the Province nearly as bad, and unfortunately the process 

 -of destruction is going on even now in more places than one. 



According to Mr. Ward, Quebec has under license 48,500 square miles, 

 producing 2,500,000 pine logs, equal to 386,000,000 feet b.m., and 1,308,000 

 spruce logs, producing 106,000,000 feet b.m. ; white and red pine timber 

 3,110,000 cubic feet, equal to 37,320,000 feet b.m. ; hardwood, 51,000 cubic 

 feet, or 611,000 feet b.m. ; railroad ties, 143,000 pieces, 32 feet each, making 

 4,576,000 feet b.m. ; cedar equal to 4,500,000 feet; pine and spruce round 

 timber, 5,760,000 feet b.m. ; tamarac, 175,000 feet b.m. ; hemlock, 34,000 

 feet; cordwood, equal to 5,000,000 feet, making in all 549,976,000 feet, 

 giving a gross revenue of $668,596 to the Province. 



I am indebted to Mr. Chapais for the following list of trees as belong- 

 ing to this Province, whose woods are used in manufacture: BIRCH, white, 

 canoe, yellow, black and red ; HICKORY, bitter, shell-bark and whiteheart , 

 HORNBEAM; OAK, white, chestnut and red; COFFEE TREE; SPRUCE, white, 

 Norway, and black ; MAPLE, white or silver, rock or sugar, striped and 

 red; ASH, black, white and red; BEECH; LARCH; BUTTERNUT; ELM, 

 white, and red or slippery ; IRONWOOD ; POPLAR, large toothed, balsam, 

 cotton wood and aspen; PINE, white, scrub, red or Norway ; PLANE TREE ; 

 HEMLOCK ; FIR, balsam ; WILLOW, white and yellow ; MOUNTAIN ASH ; 

 WHITE CEDAR ; BASSWOOD. 



For the sake of affording a means of identification of the above trees 

 when the ordinary appellation of the Provinces is made use of, a list is 

 appended enumerating the English, French and botanical names : 



