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Asia covers 1,700,000 square miles. The extent of the forests is not definitely 

 known, bat may be estimated at between one-fourth and one-fifth of the total area. The 

 following figures give the wooded area in some of the countries : 



Total Area. Wooded Area. 



Siberia ... 4,824,570 square miles 2,800,000 square miles (a) 



British India ... 868,314 46,213 (b) 



Asia Minor ... 196,000 10,860 (c) 



Cochinchina ... 21,600 3,075 (c) 



North America has a total area of 7,400,000 square miles, and the forests, covering 

 about one-sixth of the surface, are distributed as follows : 



__ ^ ,._ Total Area. Wooded Area. 



United States 3> 501,400 square miles (d) 875,000 square miles (<?) 



Canada 



Nova Scotia 21,731 14,000 (/") 



Ontario and Quebec 337,955 145,200 (/) 



New Brunswick 27,322 9,400 (/) 



Prince Edward's Isl. 2,133 272 (/) 



British Columbia 



and Vancouver 390,344 171,900 (/) 



Newfoundland 42,000 726 (/) 



The area of South America is about 6,500,000 square miles. Brazil being very 

 densely wooded, the proportion of forest may reach between one-half and one-third of 

 the total area. 



In Australasia, with a total area of over 3,000,000 square miles, the proportion of 

 forests is not known, except in the following cases : 



(a) Eough estimate from data by Prince Kropotkine in Encycl. Brit., 9th edition. 



(&) In 1883. Composed of 29,371 sq. miles of first class reserves, and 16,842 sq. miles of second class 

 reserves. Eventually, a portion of the latter will be given up for cultivation, and the remainder added to the 

 first-class reserves. 



(c) Report, Supt. Cape Forests, 1882. 



(ft) Exclusive of lakes and rivers ; including Alaska. 



(e) According to Dr. Brown in The Forester. The total area is not given in the Report on the United 

 States forests by Professor Sargent, which is the standard source of information on North American forests, 

 but it seems that Dr. Brown's estimate is too high. 



(O Command Paper, C 2,197, of 1878. 



(g) Command Paper, C 2,197, of 1878. 



