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which have calmly looked down for centuries on the 
works of man the destroyer, there is cause for 
thankfulness for that love of trees which is innate in 
the heart of every Englishman, even though he may 
not have knowledge as to the requirements of the 
forest. Perhaps it is partly due to this affection 
that there has been some sympathy in the attitude 
adopted towards forestry amongst those in high 
places, for failing their concurrence such progress as 
has been made would have been impossible. It 
would, indeed, have been more rapid had that 
sympathy been earlier expressed, for to make a 
new scientific department at once dependent upon 
its earnings for its success is not a mistake likely to 
be repeated in these days, when initial liberality is 
held to be essential to rapid development. 
Enough has now, perhaps, been written to present 
the conditions of the struggle in the past according 
to the impression received at the time, so that from 
their consideration the success of forestry in the 
present may be the better understood and appre- 
ciated. 
The charge of the Oudh Forest circle carried with 
it residence in the hills, for Naini Tal was the 
summer seat of the Local Government. The place is 
too well known to require any detailed description. 
Compared with other hill-stations, it possesses con- 
siderable advantages, for some temperaments in its 
lake, on whose borders sociable gatherings are con- 
tinuous, and for others in the facility for leaving the 
populous basin formed by the hills of Liria Kanta, 
Chinar, and Skerkadinda, and at once entering 
the Government woodlands at the back of these 
