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APPENDIX 



* Most of the blanks are rocky and consequently could hardly be forested. 



The disparity in area of 3.60 hectares (65.14 61.54 = 3.60) is due to the inaccurate 

 data upon which the original area computation was based; it has not been corrected 

 until now. 



Art. 3. Boundaries. Except bordering the Commune of Chatillon (Haute- 

 Savoie) a boundary established when the working plan for that forest was made, the 

 boundaries were very indefinite. We have made a general survey of the boundary 

 and have established corners for the two stands in accordance with the map of 1730 

 which is sufficiently accurate. Every corner and boundary rock marked with a cross 

 has its numerical order carefully chiseled as given in the working-plan map. These 39 

 boundary marks are divided as follows : Le Peray, 18 (3 of these coincide with the num- 

 bers for the communal forest of Chatillon); La Vuardaz, 21; Total, 39. 



Art. 4. Rights and servitudes. None. 



Art. 5. Topography and drainage. Occupying the summit of Mt. Orsay 

 ("Orchez" according to the army map) a point at which the range ends which separates 

 the valleys of Giffre and Arje and dominates their heads, the forest therefore lies on 

 north and south slopes. The extreme altitudes are 620 meters (lower part of the 

 Peray Canton) and 1,346 meters (summit of Vuardaz), or an average of 980 meters. 

 The slopes are often very steep and occasionally precipitous near the summit; within 

 the forest there are cliffs 100 meters in height. 



Art. 6. Soil. Despite its small area the forest stands on a number of different 

 geological formations which can be classed as follows: 



Calcaire liasque du Chablais (5 H ) 



Bathonien et Bajocien (7) 



Malm (12) 



Cretace superieur dit couche rouge (17) 



Moraine Alpine (21) 



The figures enclosed in parentheses show approximately the area occupied by each 

 (geologic) soil. Because of this diversity of mineral bases soils of very different character 

 have resulted. Marls deep and fresh, occasionally actually wet, arid detritus, bare 

 limestones or only slightly covered with a thin layer of humus are found side by side; 

 the fertility itself is extremely variable. One must admit that the poor or mediocre 

 areas are the rule rather than the exception and that the really rich soils are scarce. 



Art. 7. Climate. Since the two stands are situated in different valleys it 

 naturally follows that the climate is also dissimilar. On the one hand the Canton of 

 Vuardaz, with a northern exposure, is in a rainy valley where the snow lies four months 

 each year, while the vineyards still flourish just below in the Peray Canton. 



Art. 8. Stand. The chief species are spruce, fir, Scotch pine, and beech. 

 Spruce, which is easily the most important, varies a great deal. From the straight, 

 cylindrical long-boled well-pruned tree 35 meters in height (115 feet!) in the well watered 

 valley of Vuardaz, which one cannot help but admire, to the branchy unstable stem 

 which clings to the rock on the Orsay peak. In the Peray Canton it is represented by 

 sapling stands, dense and regular, but because of the dry soil and climate these do not 



