ADVERTISEMENT. 



" The Celebrated Forest Ordinance of 1669 :" Such 

 is the character and designation generally given at the 

 present day to the Ordinance in question. It is known, 

 by reputation at least, in every country on the Continent 

 of Europe; but, so far as is known to me, it has never 

 before been published in EngUsh dress. It may possibly 

 be considered antiquated ; but, on its first promulgation, it 

 was welcomed, far beyond the bounds of France, as bring- 

 ing life to the dead ; and I know of no modern system of 

 Forest Exploitation, based on modern Forest Science, in 

 which I cannot trace its influence. In the most advanced 

 of these — that for which we are indebted to Hartig and 

 Cotta of Saxony — I see a development of it like to the 

 development of the butterfly from what may be seen in 

 the structure of the chrysalis ; and thus am I encouraged 

 to hope that it may prove suggestive of benificial arrange- 

 ments, even where it does not detail what may be deemed 

 desirable to adopt. 



In my translation I have followed an edition issued 

 with Royal approval in 1753, with one verbal alteration 

 to bring it into accordance with certain older approved 

 editions, and with another verbal alteration to bring it 

 into accordance with editions issued in 1699, 1723, 1734, 

 and 1747. 



A similar volume on the Modern Forest Economy of 

 France is being prepared for the press. 



Information in regard to the culture of woods in France, 

 in accordance with advanced science, is supplied in a 

 volume lately published—" Elements of Sylviculture : a 



