172 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
tures, but no fruits other than currants and berries. There 
were considerable bodies of woodland, and here and there 
a village of log huts. The population was sparse, and a 
general air of poverty prevailed. It is, indeed, geologi- 
cally, a region that has but recently emerged from under 
the glaciers, and abounds in lakes and ponds. We noticed 
several high slender stacks of leaves put up for winter 
feed, and there were various indications of long and cold 
winters; for this is in over 61° of North latitude, and 
under the same parallel as Greenland, ar.d the northern 
shore of Hudson’s Bay. 
‘The public bighway appeared to end at a gate; but on 
passing this, and no longer fenced, the carriage-way led by 
easy curves, through a well-kept woodland, with here and 
there a little lake, until 2 mile or two further it passed 
a steam saw-mill, and the next moment brought into view 
the group of wooden buildings of the Forest Academy, 
that were first seen across a beautiful lake. As our arrival 
was expected no time was lost in explanations, and the 
most generous hospitality awaited us. 
‘The two days spent at this place were most profitably 
employed, and although in vacation, every care was taken 
to illustrate the working of the establishment, including 
the mill,in which steam was got up to show its operations, 
There are two separate branches of instruction taught 
here, one for the education of forest agents, and the other 
of forest guards. The number of students is small, but 
the course appeared well arranged, and the results very 
satisfactory. Mr B. is a Swede, and received his profes- 
sional training at the Saxon School of Forestry in Tharand. 
‘In wandering through the forests we noticed that the 
timber was small, and of slow growth. It was chiefly fir, 
pine, birch, and poplar, and was not comparable in size or 
density with our common native forest growth. Experi- 
ments had been made with the Siberian larch, but the 
plantation was too young to judge of the result. Some 
years before we had sent to this place several pounds of 
seeds of our white pine, and small parcels of seeds of the 
