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under birch and alder, 1,226 desatins. At the annual 

 cuttings on this estate one meets with fellings, the value 

 of which often attain 100 roubles. 



'The bordering estate, Poldevsky, 16,263 desatins 1,875 

 fathoms, is under similar conditions of sale. The division 

 of these estates from each other has no importance 

 whatever in an economical point ; both the estates are 

 organised ; the bordering corner lines between them are 

 quite useless. It would have been much more useful in 

 a commercial view for making estimates if both had been 

 grouped together with regard to the distance of their 

 quarters or sections from the town of Karatchev, and from 

 the line of railway, &c. Such grouping of quarters of thi 

 mass of forest, in an economical point of view, is much 

 more practical than the division of the estates according 

 to the boundaries of the general survey. The whole 

 extent of the Karatchev forest district is 25,142 desatins 

 2,194 fathoms, of which there is in the possession of the 

 peasantry only 1,525 desatins 2,384 fathoms. 



' The first Briansk and Karatchev forest districts occupy 

 in the government of Orel the first place among all the 

 forest districts of this government with regard to the 

 facility of sales of forest materials; and likewise the 

 convenience of living for the foresters: Land, houses, 

 nearness to railways, and the three towns Briansk, 

 Karatchev, and Orel, are of course not unimportant 

 privileges. For these two forest districts it is of the 

 greatest importance to have roads for carting timber or 

 cuttings, which should by the shortest way connect the 

 clearings with the railways, and would afford the cheapest 

 means of conveying the timber from the most distant 

 parts of these forestries. 



' The third Briansk forest district is remarkable from 

 having the Okonlitsk estate, upon which many look as an 

 immense reserve of forest riches which may readily rot 

 in the wood without any profit to the crown, and which 

 require, therefore, an early and speedy sale. We do not 

 adopt this view. 



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