12b MODERN S-OREST ECONOMY. 



£6,000,000 sterling), and 72 millions more (upwards of 

 £3,000,000 sterling) for the purchase of land; and they 

 recommend that the extra million applied for should 

 unhesitatingly be granted. 



' We are all,' say they in their concluding sentence, 

 ' deeply impressed with the thought — better far spend a 

 million in reboisement than have to give such a'sum to 

 sufferers from inundations ; ' and the grant was made 

 unanimously by the Chamber, together with an addition 

 of 5000 francs to be employed in developing roads to 

 facilitate the exploitation of communal forests, the effect 

 of which, it was anticipated, might be to raise the mean 

 proceeds of 360,000 hectares, or 900,000 acres, of forests 

 from five francs to fifty francs per hectare. 



Section C— Effect of Keboisement in Fixing Down 

 AND Utilising Drift Sand in Northern Germany. 



In a volume entitled Pine Plantations on the Band Wastes 

 of France, I have supplied information in regard to such 

 plantations on the Landes of the Gironde, and on the 

 Landes of La Sologne. We have in Northern Germany 

 another phase of the work. 



In a preceding chapter [ante p. 96-100] have been 

 narrated how some of the evils which came upon the 

 land in the vicinity of Danzig, in consequence of the 

 destruction of woods by which^ the mobile sand of the 

 dunes had been previously bound down and kept in its 

 place. Herr Wessely, from whose treatise, entitled Der 

 EuropSishe Flugsand und seine Culttire, most of the narra- 

 tion was cited, goes on to say: — 



' When, in 1793, the Danzig Republic was incorporated 

 with the State of Prussia, the new Government soon 

 brought under discussion the fencing, once for all, of the 

 dry dunes. Not only would the continuous reduction to 

 waste of the town's forest not be suffered, but it was deter- 

 mined to meet the growing danger which threatened the 

 commerce of Danzig : as it was feared some one of these 



