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and 1830, so that the greater number have, or will in a 

 few years have passed through their first prescribed course 

 of treatment. [By this, I presume, may be meant a com- 

 plete revolution, but it does not appear whether that or 

 the ordinary course of felling be what is meant ; and this 

 is referred to as supplying the means of forming an 

 opinion in regard to the practicability and expediency of 

 perpetuating the system initiated.] 



' The management adopted is substantially the same as 

 that followed in many forests in Russia a preparation of 

 the forest for regular treatment in accordance with the 

 advanced forest science of the day, by the preparation of 

 accurate diagrams, dividing the forests into compartments, 

 determining the area of fellings for specified periods, and 

 portioning the whole area of the forest so as to secure the 

 requisite products in accordance with an economical use of 

 the capabilities of the forest j and by projecting the exploi- 

 tation and other operations to be followed out in the 

 course of the decade, including the opening up of the 

 forest by felled strips to give access to all of the compart- 

 ments required, and making these approximately of equal 

 areas ; and by prescribing the operations to be undertaken 

 according as the trees may be young, or middle-aged, or 

 mature, or consisting of a mixture of trees belonging to 

 any two of these categories in any variety of proportions. 



' Assuming the operations to embrace a period of thirty 

 years, if the mature section allotted for exploitation in 

 any decade do equal one-third of the whole area, the 

 clearing is confined to the section, and the deficient pro- 

 duce is obtained from other parts ; if it exceed the third 

 of the whole area, it is cleared so far as a sale can be 

 assured for the produce. 



* It lies with the taxator to prescribe the time and place 

 of all the fellings, and so to combine these as to prepare 

 for the whole forest being brought into such uniformity in 

 its several parts as is most favourable for the carrying out 

 of the most approved forest management of the day, but 

 doing this with the least possible sacrifice of advantages, 



