34 THE FORESTS OP PRANCE. 



for the city and university." It is in folio; it is now 

 extremely rare ; and it bears the following title : — " La 

 Reformation Generales des a ForSts et Bois de a Majesty 

 de la Province de Pictou, par Messieurs Colbert et Baren- 

 tien, Conseilldrs du Roy en tons ses Conseils, Maistre des 

 Requests ordinaires de son Hostel, Commissionaires dd- 

 partis, pour I'ex^cution de ses ordres dans la Gdndralitd de 

 Poictiers, et pour la dite Reformation ;" and the motto, 

 without being exempt from the magniloquence of style 

 prevalent at the time, indicates rather happily the import- 

 ance and the nature of the work. It is verse from Ezekiel : 

 " ScieiU omnia ligna regionis quia ego Dominus ; Humiliam 

 lignum sublime ; Exaltavi lignum humile; Siccavi liguum viride; 

 Et frondere feci lignum aridum." ' * 



* " All the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high 

 tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to 

 flourish. "—Ezek. xvii. 24. 



