38 FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
ponding map in one sheet, with coloured indications of 
the forests of coniferous and of broad-leaved trees in the 
kingdom. And subsequently there was issued by the 
Directory of Forest Administration in Christiania three 
forest maps of different districts of the county of Christiania. 
From these it appears that broad-leaved trecs are found 
chiefly in the west and the north-west portion of the 
kingdom, though by no means confined to these, and 
-mostly on the borders of rivers and lakes, and skirting the 
lower fringes of coniferous forests; while the forests of 
coniferous trees are densely diffused over the south-east, 
and sparsely scattered over the extreme north of the 
kingdom. 
_ Besides these I have before me a Report by the Forest 
Directory for the period 1875-1880; a Report on the 
Nature and Condition of Forests in Finmark, by Forest- 
Inspector Barth; a Report on the Nature and Condition 
of the Forests in the Guldbrandsdalen, by the same author ; 
a Report on the Condition of the Woods in the Water- 
courses of the Arendal, by Forest-Inspector Mejdell; a 
Report on the Condition of the Forests in Romsdals 
County, by J. Schioetz; and Reports by A. T. Gloersin ; 
and of Examination of Forests in Stavanger and the 
borders of Bergenuus County. Also reports on the Econo- 
mical Condition of the Kingdom by Prefects of nineteen 
Prefectures, for the years 1861-65 ; similar reports for the 
years 1866-70; and a Report made by Forest-Assistant 
Aars, to the Department of the Interior, on the Condition 
of the Forests in the Prefecture of Lister and Mandal, 
published in successive numbers of the Christiansand 
Stiftsavis,in the latter months of 1870, containing sadden- 
ing accounts of the reckless and hopeless destructions 
which were then, and had been for some time, going on in 
the forests. 
From the whole it appears that the true forests of 
Norway are composed almost entirely of the Norway 
spruce fir and the Scots fir. It is only exceptionally that 
some other trees, such as the alder, the beech, and the 
