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Mora ; from Honduras, Mahogany, Logwood 

 and Indiarubber ; from Jamaica, Logwood and 

 other dye woods. From Australia, various 

 hard woods, also Red Cedar, Blackwood, Beech, 

 Silky Oak and Bean ; from New Zealand, 

 Kauri Pine and Kauri Gum. Among the niinor 

 imports are Eucalyptus Oil, Red Gum, Kino and 

 other medicinal preparations. 



France. France ranks with Germany as one 

 of the great Powers of Europe which for genera- 

 tions, amid far-reaching poHtical changes, has 

 steadily pursued an enlightened national pohcy 

 in the care and protection of her forests. She 

 may justly lay claim to be the pioneer of modern 

 forestry, and many countries have copied her 

 methods. They have, in fact, been modified to 

 meet the national conditions of countries so 

 diverse in climate configuration and forest 're- 

 sources as British India, Japan and Cape Colony. 



In the middle of the sixteenth century Royal 

 intervention was invoked to prevent the reck- 

 less waste of valuable timber which had taken 

 place up to that date. Henry IV, assisted by 

 the Due de Sully, regulated the cutting of forest 

 trees. Louis XIV, at the instigation of his 

 minister Colbert, produced an effective law in 

 the Forest Ordonnance of 1669, which became 

 the model of all subsequent legislation, ending, 



