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been engaged for the last 30 years in the construction of 

 iron ships in Russia and Finland, is a consumer, in so 

 much as forest products are required both for the decks 

 and for cabin fittings informed me that the principal 

 timber of the country white and yellow pine when 

 exported, is exported in the form of deals, boards, planks, 

 and battens. Mining timber and logs are exported in 

 very small quantities, and a little birch is exported in 

 planks, but this wood is generally only fit for consumption 

 as firewood. He wrote to me in reply to some explicit 

 questions : ' I have travelled very little in the interior of 

 the country ; I can only say that the export of timber has 

 very much increased of late years, and that a large number 

 of saw-mills have been recently erected, both in the 

 interior and along the coast, the largest of which is at 

 Kothka, a new town situated near the mouth of the 

 Kymmene river, on the coast between Wyborg and 

 Fredrikshamn. The extension of railways in Finland has 

 conduced much to the erection of saw-mills in the interior. 

 For instance, a large saw-mill recently put up at Akkas, a 

 place half-way between Tavastehus and Tammerfors, ships 

 all its produce at Abo, sending it thither by rail. Large 

 quantities of timber are now shipped at Kothka, Sornas, 

 near Helsingfors, Abo, Bjorneborg, and other northern 

 towns, besides Wyborg andTran^sund, and, notwithstanding 

 the lowness of the price abroad, it is remunerative. 7 



I have spoken of the extensive saw-mills of Messrs 

 Hood & Co. at Nyslott. Besides these, there were brought 

 under my attention the following : Those of Messrs Hack- 

 man & Co., of Messrs Wahl & Co., of Mr C. Rosenius, all in 

 Wyborg ; of Mr Ahlqvist, in Fredrikshamn ; of Messrs 

 Gutzest & Co., in Kothka ; of Messrs Rosenlew & Co., in 

 Bjorneborg; and of Mr Cannelin, in Uleaborg. 



SECTION B. SHIPBUILDING. 

 In the classification of forest produce prescribed to the 



