REPORT ON REBOISEMBNTS TILL 1870. 233 



" This table, in which are made reports of work done year by year, shows 

 that the works have been extended over a total area of 79,703 hectares. 

 The part referred to as ' Undertakings executed as Sanctioned Works ' is 

 58,383 hectares, that of ' Enjoined Works ' 21,320 hectares. 



" Seeing that the work of 1869 is not yet closed, nor that of 1870 well 

 begun, it may be anticipated that at the close of the current year the whole 

 of the reBoisements effected will embrace nearly 95,000 hectares, of which 

 25,000 at least have been restocked by Heboisements et Gazonnements Obli- 

 gatoires. Such, approximately, will be the statement in the balance-sheet 

 of the first decade, or 10 years work of the reboisement of the mountains, 

 prescribed by the law of 28th July 1860. We must not, however, consider 

 the actual influence of the works as limited to the areas which shall then 

 come to be indicated. 



" To compare the results obtained with the expenditure incurred, it is 

 necessary to take into account not only the surveillance, and the regulation 

 of the passage" and pasturage of the portions of the p6rim6tres not 

 replanted, but also, and more especially, the numerous barrages which have 

 caused their influence and protective action to be felt at very great 

 distances, as well as in the valleys." 



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