FOREST LANDS AND FORESTRY 



OF 



NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



PART I. 



FOREST LANDS. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



Ix the introduction to a companion volume on The Forest 

 Lands and Forestry of Finland it is stated that ' I spent 

 the summer of 1879 in St. Petersburg, ministering in the 

 British and American Chapel in that city, while the pastor 

 sought relaxation for a few months at home. I was for 

 years the minister of the congregation worshipping there ; 

 and I had subsequently repeatedly spent the summer 

 among them in similar circumstances. I was at the time 

 studying the forestry of Europe ; and I availed myself of 

 opportunities afforded by my journey thither through 

 Norway, Sweden, and Finland, by my stay in Russia, and 

 by my return through Germany and France, to collect 

 information bearing upon the enquiries in which I was 

 engaged. On my return to Scotland I contributed to the 

 Journal of Forestry a series of papers, which were after- 

 wards reprinted and published under the title Glances at 

 the Forests of Northern Europe. In the preface to this 

 pamphlet I stated that in Denmark may be studied the 

 remains of forests in prehistoric times ; in Norway, luxu- 

 riant forests managed by each proprietor as seemeth good 

 in his own eyes ; in Sweden, sustained systematic endea- 



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