24 REPORT OF THE FOREST COMMISSION. 



TABLE III. FIRES BY RELATIVE AREA BURNED AND COUNTIES, IQII. 



The relative proportion of large and small fires is given more 

 particularly in Table III, and points, as always, to the fact that 

 the larger area burned lies in the southern territory where forest 

 types offer more favorable footing, and the wide reaches of 

 level, untenanted woodland render both discovery of and access 

 to a fire more tardy. It is therefore Atlantic, Burlington, Cam- 

 den, Cumberland and Ocean counties that suffer most heavily. 

 Moreover, these same counties, with Gloucester, are those in 

 which the occupations of the people create the greatest danger. 

 The berry crops, swamp work, and the development o>f real 

 estate, with its consequent influx of persons ignorant of or care- 

 less in using fire, peculiarly expose these sections to burning. 

 (See Table IV and Figs. 13 and i3a.) 



