t>2 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



And continuous with this, on the eastern bank of the 

 Stinkwood River, is Robbe Hoek, in which is sound valu- 

 able timber, but it is difficult of access, in consequence of 

 its growing in deep kloofs. In this patch waggon- wood is 

 plentiful. 



Above this are three small patches in which no valuable 

 timber has been left uncut, but in which a few young trees 

 are growing up. Still higher, skirted on the east by the 

 Witte-els Kiver, and traversed in part by the upper bed of 

 the Stinkwood River, is the Witte-els Bush, near to which 

 is the residence of the conservator. It abounds in witte- 

 els and contains good waggon-wood, but the Stinkwood 

 and yellow woods have been nearly cut out. 



On the south or seaward side of the Eerste River, where 

 it follows a course parallel with the Eland, is a large por- 

 tion of an extensive patch traversed by that river, in which 

 there is plenty of waggon-wood and some very large yellow 

 wood trees, but little Stinkwood has been left in it. 



On the north bank of this river, and on the same side 

 of the river, where it takes a southerly course, are three 

 patches, from which all old timber has been cut, excepting 

 such as is not generally used, and these patches are now 

 closed to allow young timber to grow. 



Such is the first stage of the work of destruction under 

 the treatment which I have designated primitive Jardinage, 

 here arrested, it is to be hoped, by the judicious measures 

 adopted by Captain Harrison. But the progress of the work 

 can be traced a little further in an adjoining district in 

 regard to one Crown forest, in regard to which the forest 

 warder wrote to me some time since : 'I would suggest that 

 Government should, without delay, get this portion sur- 

 veyed, as and are appropriating the forest 



to themselves. No licences are exhibited, and to my 

 knowledge, as much as 750 worth of timber has been 

 removed within the last ten years, while for the cutting of 

 timber out of the said forest I have only issued two licences 

 [each for the removal of a single load.] The same amount 



