FORESTS OF OLONETZ. 4h 
sent chiefly to Holland. According to the statements of 
the traders these inch boards are both in quality and price 
inferior to the Swedish boards of the same measurement, 
In consequence of which the preparation of them in large 
quantities is not remunerative. 
‘Coming next to those connected with Povonetz, I have 
to state that not far from the post road on the river 
Koumsa, at a distance of twenty-three versts from Povo- 
netz, there is a saw-mill belonging to the timber merchant, 
Mr Zachanieff. This mill also I had an opportunity of 
seeing. It is built in a very pretty situation, in the valley 
of the rapid river Kamsa, surrounded by lofty hills extend- 
ing to the Onega Lake. The mill has one wheel and two 
frames, and there are sawn in the course of the year about 
30,000 logs. Everywhere about it are seen order and clean- 
liness ; and there is a fire which never dies out, burning 
continuously the outside slabs, the ends of logs, and other 
débris ; and what are literally mountains of sawdust fill up 
the picture of the mill and its surroundings, while the noise 
of the wheel and of the saws is reverberated by the sur- 
rounding forest. 
‘A journey of some fifteen miles brings us to Povonetz. 
A poorer and more unattractive town than this it is 
impossible to imagine: it is simply a village built on the 
plan of a town. The most remarkable object in Povonetz 
is an old wooden church staading on the shore of Lake 
Onega, built by Peter the Great, the only monument which 
indicates that ever he was here. There is, it is true, 
besides this, the Petrozavodsk road ; but this is now only; 
a footpath or track, by which are brought the goods 
obtained in this town from Archangel. Add to this two 
or three legends or traditions about Peter, and all records 
of his having been here are exhausted. 
* Almost close to the town, on the estuary of the Povet- 
chankw, is the saw-mill, which gives some little life to the. 
town, and is the only thing which vivifies its existence. 
‘The whole biographies of the place tell only of what 
relate to the works, besides which the-inhabitants have an 
