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the study of this as it developed itself in France ; and to 

 the student of modern scientific forestry, which is alto- 

 gether different from what is seen in England, I would 

 recommend the study of its development in Saxony, and 

 its application in France. Having to do in this volume 

 only with the forestry of the past I may say, the anti- 

 quated forestry of the past, before the nineteenth century 

 " rung out the old, and rung in the new " method of forest 

 management based on the advanced forest science of the 

 day I would direct the attention of students of this more 

 especially to the early forest legislation of France, to the 

 famous forest ordinance of 1669, to the mediaeval forest 

 litigation in France, to the Code Forestier, and the Ordinnance 

 reglementaire of later times. This I do on the ground that 

 these are of more easy access to many in England than are 

 the corresponding indications of the progress of forestry in 

 other lands ; and on the ground that they supply informa- 

 tion more succinct, satisfactory, and continuous than any 

 treatise known to me in any other language. 



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