In Poland we find an endeavour made to introduce the most advanced forest exploitation of the day — that known in Germany, where it originated, as Die Fachwerke Method, known in France as La Methode des Compartiments, and known in Poland and in some other countries as the Scientific Method of Exploitation. In Lithuania we find forest management similar to what prevails throughout Central Russia. And in Courland, Estonia, and Livonia, we meet with some special regulations issued for the management of forests in the Baltic Provinces of Russia.
Through all of these last-mentioned countries — Poland, Lithuania, Courland, Estonia, and Livonia — I have travelled once and again in proceeding to or from St. Petersburg, where I once resided as pastor of the British and American Church, and where I have frequently passed the summer ministering to the same church, while one and another of those who have succeeded me in the pastorate sought a few months' relaxation at home. In all of them I have had correspondents — in some districts, numerous correspondents; and though my correspondence with most related chiefly, if not exclusively, to the publication of religious tracts, and to the sale and distribution of the New Testament Scriptures, there has thus been sustained for more than half a century an interest in them which has procured for me information which otherwise it might have been difficult to obtain.
My first journey through this portion of Western Russia was made in 1836; a second in 1873, coming from Vienna through Poland to St. Petersburg; my last in 1878, proceeding from St. Petersburg through Berlin and Dresden to Paris. In the lengthen