FOREST LANDS AND FORESTRY 
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NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
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PART I. 
FOREST LANDS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
In the introduction to a companion volume on The Forest 
Lands and Forestry of Finland it is stated that ‘I spent 
the summer of 1879 in St. Petersburg, ministering in the 
British and American Chapel in that city, while the pastor 
sought relaxation for a few months at home. I was for 
years the minister of the congregation worshipping there ; 
and I had subsequently repeatedly spent the summer 
among them in similar circumstances. I was at the time 
studying the forestry of Europe; and I availed myself of 
opportunities afforded by my journey thither through 
Norway, Sweden, and Finland, by my stay in Russia, and 
by my return through Germany and France, to collect 
information bearing upon the enquiries in which I was 
engaged. On my return to Scotland I contributed to the 
Journal of Forestry a series of papers, which were after- 
wards reprinted and published under the title Glances at 
the Forests of Northern Europe. In the preface to this 
pamphlet I stated that in Denmark may be studied the 
remains of forests in prehistoric times; in Norway, luxu- 
riant forests managed by each proprietor as seemeth good 
in his own eyes; in Sweden, sustained systematic endea- 
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