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necessity to avoid this inconvenience has led to the 

 system of considerably simplifying the business most 

 frequently it is usual to fix the price with timber of the 

 same length from the vershock of thickness, and that of 

 the same thickness from the archine in length ; in the 

 same way is fixed the price for carriage by land by pro- 

 portioning the prices to the cubic contents ; and the 

 weight of the materials also supplies a means of satis- 

 factorily fixing the price for transport. 



' In addition to this the price in sales by the archine or 

 vershock differs one price is fixed for the archine if the 

 sort is from 9 to 15 archines in length, another if 18 

 archines, and so on ; and in the same way likewise for 

 the vershock of thickness. Such a system might be 

 adopted for estimates of crown forests, because it answers, 

 as it were, the demand of the wood trade, and likewise 

 takes account of the cubic contents of different sorts, and 

 the cost of production of forest materials. 



The Present State of the Wood Trade in the 

 Government of Volhinia. 



' In latter years the forests in the government of Volhinia 

 have been cut down and cleared to a much greater extent 

 than formerly. For this reason the wood trade of this 

 government is far from being in a satisfactory state ; sundry 

 wood dealers receive very different profits from wood 

 instances of receiving great profits are intermitted with 

 cases of great losses. Generally the wood trade in this 

 government requires great caution. 



' The principal occasions of such a state were the cheap 

 sale of forests by parties intending to take an active part 

 in the troubles that arose in the south-western country, 

 and the great demand for forest materials that ensued 

 soon after these sales for Prussia, in consequence of known 

 political events. The co-incidence of these two events 

 gave many persons considerable profits ; these were in 

 many cases 75 to 150 per cent. Before this time the 



