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and this increase must increase the consumption of forest 

 materials, because in the government of Orel leather 

 and tallow fabrics, &c., have a great importance, and 

 consume large quantities of forest materials. 



' So the importation of forest materials to the places 

 destitute of wood in the Orel government is inevi- 

 table ; it will increase yearly, and the prices, with the 

 opening of railways, will rise greatly. The most profit- 

 able supply of forest materials will be from the Dnieper 

 forests of the Orel government, that is from the first 

 group to which refer the districts of Briansk, Tronbteheosk, 

 &c. This part of the Dnieper forests, as the most easterly, 

 and is near to the woodless stripe, the principal places of 

 which mast be counted Kursk and Orel. Even now the 

 lack of wood in this stripe calls for a constant land 

 transport of forest materials to the neighbourhood of Orel 

 and Kursk, and further in the direction of Woronetz and 

 Kharkov. 



' The forests of the Dnieper basin have a future. 

 The Orel-Smolensk railway cuts through the northern 

 part of this group of forests ; the Kursk-Kiev passes 

 not far from the southern part; the navigable river 

 Dwina passes almost through the middle of this group, 

 and affords a possibility of cheap conveyance of forest 

 materials from the furthest parts of these forests to one or 

 other of the railways, each of which leads to the important 

 wood markets of Orel and Kursk. Besides this the Kursk- 

 Kiev railway, passing by the left bank of the river Seyina, 

 enables the transport of forest materials to be made to 

 the north-west part of the government of Kharkov, and 

 the south-west part of the government of Kursk, where 

 the local forests are insufficient for local wants. The 

 river Dwina, passing through the middle of this group of 

 forests, permits of the floating to the lower governments of 

 those sorts for which their might be no demand in the 

 aforenamed two markets. These circumstances favouring 

 the sale from the crown estates lying on the Dwina, in 

 the governments of Orel and Ticherigov, confer on these 



