FRENCH FOREST ORDINANCE 



O F 1 669; 



WITH 



ISTORICAL SKETCH OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT 

 OF FORESTS IN FRANCE. 



COBIPILED* AND TRANSLATED BY 



JOHN CROUMBIE BROWN, LL.D., 



Formerly Lecturer on Botany in University and King* a College, Aberdeen; 

 subsequently Colonial Botanist at Cape of Good Hope, and Professor 

 of Botany in the South African College, Capetown ; Felloio of the 

 Linnean Society ; Felloio of the Royal Geographical Society ; and 

 Honorary Vice-President of the African Institute of Paris. 



EDII^BtJRGH: 



OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT. 



LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. 



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