182 ©THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
‘3. The wood so prepared may be exported, and the 
contractor has liberty to erect sawmills, to build ships, to 
navigate the same on the White Sea, and to erect his own 
wharfs, 
‘The Vuig forest being of great extent, and not having 
heretofore produced any revenue, it is now of great 
importance,’ 
The Russian term for a forest is Metsa; for a wood, 
Pinta. 
The following are the names of some of the common 
trees in Russ English :— 
English. Russ. 
Ash, Yaseen. 
Alder, Olha, 
Apple, Yablone. 
Aspen, . Oseena. 
Beech, Book. 
Birch. Bereza. 
Cherry, . Beeshna. 
Chestnut, Kashtan. 
Elder, Buseena, 
Elm, .. Vyass. 
Fir, : ‘ Hanka. 
Mountain Ash, Rabcena, 
Oak, e Doob. 
Pear, Grushna, 
Plane, Yavor. 
Sycamore, Leekaya. 
Willow, Eva, 
The Russian vershok is equal to about 132 inches; the 
arshin to about 28 inches; the sajeen 
7 feet; the deci- 
tin = 60x 40, or 2,400 square sajeens, or 2°69972 English 
acres ; a verst = two-thirds of a mile. 
SEecTION II].—Cuassiriep List or PLANTS, 
The following is a list of plants found in the vicinity of 
Lake Gnega, supplied to me by Forst-Meister Alexander 
K. Guenther, of Petrozavodsk, in charge of State Forests 
in the district :-— 
