TRANSPORT AND EXPORT TIMBER TRADE, 203 
greater part of the water-courses utilised for floatage, so 
that of the 680,000 dozen nearly which have been floated 
throughout the entire country, there has remained scarcely 
8 per cent., or 54,000 dozens, of which 30,000 dozens belong 
to the basins of Krageroe, of Arendal, of Christiansand, 
and of Mendal, where there were marked about 125 
dozens. 
‘The mean gross price of the wood floated in 1880 in 
the basin of the Glommen (calculated according to the 
results yielded by more than 100,000 dozens) was 25 
crowns 26 ore, about 26s 6d sterling per dozen. Conse- 
quently there had been paid to proprietors of forests in 
the basin of the Glommen for the 185,335 dozens of wood 
delivered for floatage in 1880 a gross amount of 4,683,077 
crowns, which sum, after deduction of 1,345,000 crowns 
for felling, sorting, carriage, and floatage, shows that the 
proprietors have been benefited to the extent of 3,337,077 
crowns (£183,610.) . 
‘The exports of wood from Sweden in 1879 were less 
satisfactory ; and of about 890,000 dozens of old and new 
wood, 500,000 dozens only were floated and delivered.’ 
