186 FOBESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



1866) present different results : in the first the yearly 

 decrease of almost 10,000 roubles ; and in the second the 

 annual increase of almost 20,000 roubles, in consequence of 

 which the income in three years almost doubled itself. 



'The gross revenue from the crown forests of the 

 government of Volhinia were 



1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. 

 Roubles. Roubles. Roubles. Roubles. Roubles. 



From sales of timber, - 36,753 28,591 40,624 62,070 79,299 

 Sold by reduced scale, - 13,203 14,418 15,617 19,565 17,821 

 Gratis, .... 3,613 11,023 9,813 12,425 5,941 

 Received for billets and interest, 649 945 1,258 1,816 2,068 

 Total revenue from leases and 



other sources, - - 40,677 31,922 46,641 72,338 102,587 



' The government of Volhinia deals principally in pro- 

 duce for abroad ; it sends this to Riga and Prussia. The 

 participation of this government in the interior trade with 

 the Dnieper governments having a scarcity of forests is 

 very inconsiderable, which is principally owing to the 

 want of good communication ; the land carriage to the 

 governments of Podolia and Kherson is hindered by the 

 dividing ridge between the basins of the rivers Pripet and 

 Bug, but the water communication is much more con- 

 venient to Riga and Prussia for timber, and to Warsaw for 

 firewood and ordinary building materials. For the Dnieper 

 the principal wood products of the government of Volhinia is 

 pitch and tar, but of both of these products comparatively 

 little goes. The Kiev-Balta railway, with branches on Berdi- 

 chov and Volotchisk, will not have any great influence on 

 the sale of the principal mass of Volhinia forests, in con- 

 sequence of their distance. The branch to Berdichov 

 will have a great influence on the most southern estates of 

 the Gitomir forest district, and the branch to Volotchisk, on 

 the south-western estates of the government of Volhinia. 

 The opening of these railroads will in all probability not 

 take place soon, and until then the sales from the forests 

 of Volhinia will be principally influenced by the state of 

 the wood trade in Warsaw, Danzig, and Riga. 



