34 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



for the city and university." It is in folio; it is now 

 extremely rare; and it bears the following title: "La 

 Reformation Generales des a Forets et Bois de a Majeste 

 de la Province de Pictou, par Messieurs Colbert et Baren- 

 tien, Conseillers dti Roy en tous ses Conseils, Maistre des 

 Requests ordinaires de son Hostel, Commissionaires de- 

 partis, pour 1'execution de ses ordres dans la Ge'ne'ralite de 

 Poictiers, et pour la dite Reformation ;" and the motto, 

 without being exempt from the magniloquence of style 

 prevalent at the time, indicates rather happily the import- 

 ance and the nature of the work. It is verse from Ezekiel : 

 "Sclent omnia llgna regionis quia ego Dominus ; Humiliavi 

 lignum sublime ; Exaltavi lignum humile; Siccavi lignum viride ; 

 Et frondere fed lignum aridum." ' * 



* " All the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high 

 tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to 

 flourish." Ezek. xvii. 24. 



