PART IV. 



TIMBER EXPORTS BY THE BALTIC. 



IN M. Polytaiefs account of forests on the Dnieper, it is 

 stated that from the government of Volhinia the forest 

 produce is sent to Riga and Prussia, with which there is 

 river communication. 



Lithuania is situated on the water shed between the 

 valleys of the Black Sea and the Baltic ; the Ukraine is 

 situated entirely on the former ; Poland almost entirely 

 on the latter. While much of the timber yielded by these 

 countries is conveyed by the Dnieper to the south of 

 Russia, and much of what is produced by Lithuania and 

 Poland is conveyed to Central Europe by rail, much also 

 is exported from Dantzig, Konigsberg, Memel, and Riga. 

 From Poland much of the timber is conveyed by the 

 Vistula to Dantzig. 



Of later exports of timber from this port I have no 

 information. But from a report made to the Commissioner 

 of Crown Lands in Quebec by Mr William Quinn, 

 Supervisor of Cutters, compiled from notes collected by 

 him on a mission to Europe, we learn that 



