92: THE FOREST LANDS’ OF:NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
And ‘continuous with this, on the eastern bank of the 
Stinkwood River, is Robbe Hoek, in which is sound valu- 
able timber, but it is difficult of access, in consequence of 
its growing in deep kloofs. In this patch waggon- wood is 
plentiful. 
Above this are three small patches in which no valuable 
timber has been left uncut, but in which a few young trees 
are growing up. Still higher, skirted on the east by the 
Witte-els River, and traversed in part by the upper bed of 
the Stinkwood River, is the Witte-els Bush, near to which 
is the residence of the conservator. It abounds in witte- 
els and contains good waggon-wood, but the stinkwood 
and yellow woods have been nearly cut out. 
On the south or seaward side of the Eerste River, where 
it follows a course parallel with the Eland, is a large por- 
tion of an extensive patch traversed by that river, in which 
there is plenty of waggon-wood and some very large yellow 
wood trees, but little stinkwood has been left in it. 
On the north bank of this river, and on the same side 
of the river, where it takes a southerly course, are three 
patches, from which all old timber has been cut, excepting 
such as is not generally used, and these patches are now 
closed ‘to allow young timber to grow. 
Such is the first stage of the work of destruction under 
the treatment which I have designated primitive Jardinage, 
here arrested, it is to be hoped, by the judicious measures 
adopted by Captain Harrison. But the progress of the work 
can be traced a little further in an adjoining district in 
regard to one Crown forest, in regard to which the forest 
warder wrote to me some time since: ‘I would suggest that 
Government should, without delay, get this portion sur- 
veyed, as and are appropriating the forest 
to themselves. No licences are exhibited, and to my 
knowledge, as much as £750 worth of timber has been 
removed within the last ten years, while for the cutting of 
timber out of the said forest I have only issued two licences 
[each: for the removal:of asingle load.] The same amount 
