FORESTS ON THE DNIEPER. 137 



' According to approximate information, by which the 

 local forest administration are guided, there are of 

 private forests : 



699,597 desatins. 



' The information anent the crown forests is much more 

 correct than the information as to private forests, 

 particularly in the districts of Bolchov and Malo-Archan- 

 gelsk. If, instead of the general extent of crown forests, 

 we take into account only the forest surface, which even, 

 with regard to private estates, is shown after excluding 

 all the appurtances contained in the limits of the forest 

 estates, then we will perceive that the crown forests are 

 almost two and a-half times less than the private forests. 

 Taking the districts there are important deviations for 

 instance, in the Mtzensk district the crown forests are 

 only one-twentieth part of the private forests, and only in 

 the districts of Karatchev and Briansk are the crown forests 

 more than half. With such proportion the Orel crown 

 forests may have a much higher importance in the forest 

 trade than those of Smolensk. 



' Taking the number of inhabitants of the district as a 

 foundation census of 1862, we find that 



