FORESTRY IN EASTERN RUSSIA. 



PART I. 



RUSSIA WEST OF THE URAL MOUNTAINS. 



CHAPTER I. 



JOURNEY FROM ST. PETERSBURG. 



In two volumes similar to this information has been given 

 in regard to the forest lands and forestry of Finland"* and 

 to the forests and forestry of Northern Russia.t On my 

 return to St. Petersburg from visiting the Saima See in 

 Finland, and subsequently visiting Lake Onega in the 

 Russian Government of Olonetz, in the summer of 1882, a 



* Finland: Its Forests and Forest Management. In this volume is supplied infor- 

 mation in regard to the lakes and rivers of Finland, known as the Land of a Thousand 

 Lakes, and as the Last-horn Daughter of the Sea.—'m regard to its Physical Geog-raphy, 

 including notices of the contour of the countr3^ its g-eological formations, and indication 

 of g-lauial action, its flora, fauna, and climate ; and in regard to its Forest Economy, 

 embracing; a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of Svedjande, the Sartage 

 of France, and the Koomaree of India ; and details of the development of Modern Forest 

 Economy in Finland, with notices of its School of Forestry, of its forests and forest 

 trees, of the disposal of its forest products, of its legislation, literature, and forestry. 



t Forest Lands and Forestry of Northurn Itussia. Details are given of a trip from 

 St. Petersburg to the forests around Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, in the Government 

 of Olonetz ; a description of the forests in that government by Mr Judrae, a forest 

 official of high position, and of the forests of Archangel by Mr Hepworth Dixon, of 

 Lapland, of the Land of the Samoides and of Nova Zembla ; of the exploitation of the 

 forests by Jardinage, and of the evils of such exploitation ; and of the export timber 

 trade, and disposal of forest products. In connection with discussions of the physical 

 geography of the region information is supplied in regard to the contour and general 

 appearance of the country ; its flora, its forests, and the palaeontological botany of the 

 regions beyond, as viewed by Professor Heer and Count Saporta; its fauna, with 

 notices of game, and with copious lists of coleoptera and lepidoptera, by Forst-Meister 

 Gunther, of Petrbzavodsk. 



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