44 FORESTRY IN EASTERN RUSSIA. 



' On the banks of the Bielaya, which I had to cross 

 many times in various places, I found the wild hop 

 growing luxuriantly. Under cultivation the district yields 

 wheat, millet, buckwheat, hemp, oats, with a little flax and 

 some rye.' 



Again and again I have heard like complaints to those 

 of my friend in regard to the discomforts of travelling by 

 tarantass, where this has not been properly packed with 

 the impedimenta with which most travellers on a long 

 journey find it necessary to encumber themselves. 



The conveyance is composed of a body rangiog in form 

 from that of half a large cask cut longitudinally to that of 

 an old worn-out phaeton, being distinguished from a 

 telega by having a hood and apron, and four wheels, upon 

 the axles of which it is supported by two long poles or 

 young trees, possessed of considerable elasticity. 



In a companion volume, entitled Forest Lands and Forestry 

 of Northern Russia* I had occasion to cite the experience 

 of Hepworth Bixon in travelling through the forests in 

 the Government of Archangel, in which he says : ' Our 

 only change is in the track itself, which passes from sand 

 drifts to slimy beds, from grassy fields to rolling logs. In 

 a thousand versts we count a hundred versts of log-road, 

 two hundred versts of sand, three hundred versts of grass, 

 four hundred versts of waterway and marsh. 



' If the sands are bad the logs are worse. One night we 

 spend in a kind of protest, dreaming that our luggage has 

 been badly packed, and that on daylight coming it shall be 

 laid in some easier way. The trunk calls loudly for a 



* Forest Lands and Forestry of Northern Russia. Details are given of a trip from 

 St. Petersburg to the forests around Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, in the Government 

 of Olonetz ; a description of the forests in that government by Mr Jiulrae, a forest 

 official of high position, and of the forests of Archangel by Mr Hepworth Dixon, of 

 Lapland, of the Land of the Samoides and of Nova Zembla ; of the exploitation of the 

 forests by Jardinage, and of the evils of such exploitation ; and of the export timber 

 trade, and disposal of forest products. In connection with discussions of the physical 

 geography of the region information is supplied in regard to the contour and general 

 appearance of the country ; its flora, its forests, and the palseontological botany of the 

 regions beyond, as viewed by Professor Heer and Count Saporta; its fauna, with 

 notices of game, and with copious lists of coleoptera and lepidoptera, by Forst-Meister 

 Guenther, of Petrozavodsk. 



