TABLE OF DISTRICTS 



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The following table shows the distribution of the 

 State forests in the Governments or Districts of Asiatic 

 Russia, and also the numbers of forest divisions and 

 forest estates in each division. The Russian word 

 here translated into "division" is lesnitchestvo. It 

 may be that our technical forest term of " circle " 

 would more nearly express the meaning, but division 

 will perhaps be more readily understood. 



The Russian word datcha means an ** estate," and 

 it is left at that. Technically, we should probably 

 call it a district, or if " circle " were used for the 

 larger area, a division. 



The table is as follows : 



Thus there are 2,066 forest estates having an average 



