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ts slopes. The voeem is well wooded, but the forests are almost. 
inaccessible. On the plateau round the source of the Tuchila the ground 
is covered with pima cedar forests, and may.be estimated at 700 to 
would stand at about with an av cubic feet of 
timber each. At the present value of 3s. per cubic foot the total value 
of these trees would ,0007.; but if this timber was sold as i 
gone all over the woods and noticed quantity and quality, these figures. 
may be taken as near the mark. It is abundantly in evidence that the 
whole of the plateau was at'one time covered with cedar, as in recent 
diggings cedar roots were met with where there was no trace of them 
on the surface. Without doubt, fire has been the destructive agent, and 
it can easily be imagined as the "'under- t gets tall and thick that at 
the dry season a gust o wind would fan a flame into an immense con- 
flagration, and this cedar wood being aisinat full of ignitible resins, 
a large tract of forest would soon disappear. Consequently, there 
destruction; which destruction has been so nearly total that this bi a 
tree is now only to be met with on the i plateau of Mlanje in damp 
places, and along the aes It is no exaggeration to say that five or 
six years more delay in the assumption of control ov e remaining 
unique conifer which there is abundant evidence to show once inhabited 
all the high fermen and plateaux in the southern part of British 
Central Afri 
pt es present I have cut up nothing but dead wood, Petala in 
most cases, is in good seasonable condition. The supply of t mber 
yearly might be considerable, and not materially affect the forests for 
many years, especially as there are large numbers of young trees 
growing up in all the woods which must now be protected from fire. 
i have ae porti jp a t quantity of cedar-seed which should 
y in to transplant, the ground to be plauted must be 
dhospuglly eed sad cleaned to rent ve grass, &c., cat prevent fret, 
Possibly this extract from Mr. McClounie’s Report may be of in j 
to the authorities at Kew. Ido not forward the whole of the Report 
as it deals with other matters, and will be eventually merged in the annual 
Report from this office. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) H. H. JOHNSTON. 
DXXXVIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. THomas James HARRIS, ^ eene - i PE staff a 
Kew has bain appointed by the retary o for the Colvin 
Superintendent of the King’s House Dude: il Cdi Jamaica. He 
left for the West Indies on October 7th last. 
R. EUGENE CAMPBELL, trained at the Botanical Gardens, Jamaica, 
and latterly Superintendent of King's House Gardens and Grounds 
