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to peasants, so that the whole amounts to 43,246 desatins, 

 145 fathoms. 



'The third Tronbteheosk forest district consists of 

 estates in the possession of the peasantry, the whole area 

 of which is 6,356 desatins 677 fathoms. 



1 In the second Tronbteheosk forest district the principal 

 forest mass is the Novonikolskaia crown estate, measuring 

 2,805 desatins 1,400 fathoms. In this estate the forest 

 area is 25,106 desatins, of which 9,565 desatins are under 

 pine, and 9,142 desatins are occupied by a mixture of 

 coniferous with leafy trees ; 3,539 desatins are under 

 birch, and 2,172 desatins are under alder. An extensive 

 space in this estate is under waste, 1,495 desatins 1,798 

 fathoms; and under lease there are 826 desatins 1,470 

 fathoms. 



' Into part of Seosk forest district enter first the forests 

 of the Seosk district (which we consider to belong to the 

 Dwina river forest belt) amounting to 10,710 desatins 1,294 

 fathoms ; and secondly, the forests of the districts 

 Kromin, in which there are forests under crown adminis- 

 tration, 1,395 desatins ; and Dmitrovsk, in which are 

 forests under crown administration, 770 desatins 833 

 fathoms in extent. 



' The remaining three forest districts Liven, Jeletz, 

 and Orel, are composed almost exclusively of peasant 

 estates Liven, forest district of estates of the Liven ; and 

 Malo-Archangelsk, districts of 7,645 desatins 696 fathoms ; 

 Eletz, forest district of peasant estates of the districts of 

 Orel, Bolchoff, and Mtzensk ; and there is one crown 

 estate in the Orel district. 



' The general distribution by districts of the crown and 

 private forests is 



Crown. Private. 



3 Briansk forest districts in Briansk, 161,400 des. 234,897 des. 



3 Tronbteheosk, Tronbteheosk, 87,890 214,525 



Karatcheff, Karatcheff, 25,142 36,566 



Seosk, Seosk, 10,710 51,125 



Kromin, 1,995 ,, 7,840 ,, 



