CHAPTER III. 



FORESTS ON THE DNIEPER. 



IT is not from anything peculiar to the forest manage- 

 ment of Lithuania that it has been made the subject of 

 this treatise, but, as has been stated, solely because it 

 happens to be an integral part of the Russian empire 

 adjacent to Poland, which has been treated of in the 

 preceding part of this volume, and it supplies an oppor- 

 tunity of bringing under consideration the forest adminis- 

 tration of the Imperial domains. To show this adminis- 

 tration and management in action, I find it necessary to 

 take my readers beyond this limited field ; and this I can 

 do without breaking violently away from it. 



The largest river traversing Lithuania is the Dnieper, 

 a river extensively utilised for the floatage of wood. 

 By Professor ShavranofF, of the St. Petersburg School of 

 Forestry, there was supplied to me a series of papers by 

 Mr M. 0. Polytaief, On Forests of the Dneiper, which 

 supplies the illustrations of this of which I was desirous ; 

 and Mr Richard Sevier, of St. Petersburg, a friend whom 

 I found ready to give me every assistance in my enter- 

 prise which I could desire, supplied me with a translation 

 of the whole, which I shall insert entire. 



The Dnieper, I may premise, rises in the southern 

 portion of the government of Tver, passes by Smolensk, 

 shortly after which it enters Lithuania, passes MoghilefF, 

 and flowing thence towards Kiev, it afterwards passes 

 Kkaterinoslav and Cherson, falling into the Black Sea a 

 little beyond. It is navigable from a little above 

 Smolensk to the mouth. From Smolensk its course is 

 south-west, till it reaches Orcha, in the government of 



