FRENCH FOREST ORDINANCE 



OF 1669; 



WITH 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT 

 OF FORESTS IN FRANCE. 



COMPILED* AND TRANSLATED BY 



JOHN CROUMBIE BROWN, LL.D., 



Formerly Lecturer on Botany in University and King 1 s College, Aberdeen ; 

 subsequently Colonial Botanist at Cape of Good Hope, and Professor 

 of Botany in the South African College, Capetown ; Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society ; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ; and 

 Honorary Vice- President of the African Institute of Paris. 



fi i> i B ti & G a : 



OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COUHf. 

 LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. 



1883. V 



