280 Mediterranean Peninsulas. 
large export of currants, some 2 million boxes. The tax 
during the decade from 1862 to 1871 produced an annual 
income of $600,000, a little less in 1895. 
The forest has been from olden times, and is now al- 
most entirely, State property (some 80 or 90 per cent.) 
and in nearly all the remaining, private, communal and 
cloister property the State has a partial ownership or 
supervision. The waste land of probably 3 million acres 
extent also belongs to the State, the whole State property 
covering over 30 per cent. of the land area. 
2. Development of Forest Policies. 
The history of the country has been so unfortunate, 
and political conditions so unsettled that only lately 
efforts at improvement in economic conditions could 
hope to receive attention. For centuries after Greece 
had become a Roman province (146 B. C.), it changed 
rulers, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians follow- 
ing each other, until, in 1446,it came under the Turkish 
yoke. In 1829 freedom, but no settled order as yet, was 
attained through the assistance of Great Britain, France 
and Russia, and the elected kings, Otho (of Bavaria), 
Alfred (of England) and George (of Denmark) succes- 
sively tried to secure social order and efficient constitu- 
tional government. 
By the time this new era had arrived there was prob- 
ably little valuable-forest worthy of the name left, except 
in the inaccessible mountain districts. 
A first definite attempt to regulate matters was made 
by Otho, who being a German, took a personal interest in 
this forest property, and instituted for each province 
forest inspectors (dasarchys) under one chief inspector, 
with forest guards to prevent devastation by fire and 
