FRENCH FOREST ORDINANCE 



OF 1669; 



WITH 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT 

 OF FORESTS IN FRANCE. 



COMPILED AND TRANSLATED BY 



JOHN CROUMBIE B^ROWN, LL.D., 



Formerly Lecturer on Botany in University and King's College, Aberdeen; 

 subsequently Colonial Botanist at Cape of Good Hope, and Professor 

 of Botany in the South African College, Capekrmn ; Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society ; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ; and 

 Honorary Vice-President of the African Institute of Paris. 



EDINBUHGHj 



OLIVEE AliD BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURt. 



LONDON t SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. 



1883. 



