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CHAPTER II. 



MEASURES TO BE TAKEN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 

 1. Land available for Afforestation. 



TIIK land in 1.1 ic. I'nited Kingdom, excluding \\ater, is at. 

 present us(;d as follows : 



I'TII,I>.\TIII.N <>r TNI; I.\M> IN TIM; I'NITKI. KIM.I.CM. 



Kn 'hillil . 



Wales 



Scut hi in I . 



Mr 1. 1' ; 

 Jersey . 



I irlllllil 



Tnlill . 



It uill he observed tbat <i:5 per cent, are used for crops and 

 grass, -1 per cent, are woodlands, "20 per cent, mountain and 

 heath land, and 1:5 percent, other lands. The latter include, 

 in the case of Ireland, 1,121,111 acres of turf bog and 428,('>l'>2 

 acres of marsh. 



The area of woodlands, -1 per cent, of the total area, is 

 smaller than that of any other European country except 

 Portugal. Again, only some 67,000 acres, equal to 2] per cent, 

 of the British woodlands, belong to the State, or rather the 

 Crown, a percentage which is smaller than in the case of any 

 other European State. In France the percentage is 12, in 



