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present no market. Here wc find the same state of 

 things that prevails respecting farming produce. The 

 actual value of what rs consumed for fuel, that is to say, 

 what it costs in labour, in carriage, and rent, is never 

 ascertained for the greater part of the consumption of 

 Gennany. A market-price bearing any proportion to 

 the cost of these items is only to be found on the banks 

 of the navigable rivers. 



From the necessity every village and town lies under 

 of having fuel and timber at command, the forests are not 

 exclusively confined to the mountainous and uncultivable 

 tracts of land. In Rhenish Prussia, .the forests of 

 •which we have spoken lie between the Belgian frontier 

 and the circle of Cleves, in the Ardennes, on the 

 heights enclosing the valley of the Upper Moselle, and on 

 the right bank in the counties of Berg and Mark. 

 More than one-half of the forests belonging strictly to 

 the region of the Rhine are Prussian. The forests of 

 the Duchy of Nasjau comprise the Westerwald and 

 Taunus mountain-chains, and cover a large tract of 

 country extending in^ ards between Ncu\a icd and Bie- 

 berich. 



In the Grand Duchy of Hesse the chain of the Odeu- 

 wald, stretching in a line parallel with the Rhine be- 

 tween the Maine and the Neckar, contains the chief 

 supply of timber. On the left bank of the river, be- 

 tween Bingen and Worms, the woods scantily supply tlie 

 villages of the densely-peopled province of Rheinhessen 

 with fuel, and they are obliged to bring wood across the 

 Pvhine, from the Odenwald and the Black Forest. 



The Black Forest stre-tches the whole length of the 

 Grand Duchy of Baden, from the Neckar to the Lake of 



