without fail; and, as the foresters and under foresters are responsible for the neglect of the warders, they are at liberty to inflict slight fines on the latter, and in case of greater offences, to inflict corporal punishment, with permission of the Palata of Imperial domains, and in case of unfitness, to demand their expulsion from the service.
374. The Palata of Imperial domains requires the government land surveyors in preparing the plans, to suggest the most suitable track to be allotted to the forest servants, warders, and inspectors; these plans are laid before the Palata, who again refers them for sanction to the fourth department of Imperial domains. The proprietors for the time being of the government farms, or their managers, are to allow the forest inspectors as many workmen as are allowed to other government peasants: which allowance cannot be altered without the sanction of the Palata.
375. The forest inspectors wear brass badges on their coats that they may be recognised, and that no opposition may be offered to them in the execution of their duties/
CHAPTER III. APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY AT DIFFERENT SEASONS.
OF Revel and Estonia, and of life there, a pleasing picture is given in a small volume published in 1844 under the title of Letters from the Shores of the Baltic.
The quantity of forest land in this province is small in comparison with what there is in the more western provinces; but it is not altogether devoid of forests, and in general aspects at the different seasons of the year, a description of this may be accepted as more or less descriptive of the characteristics of all. The authoress of that work thus writes of a day spent in the country shortly after her arrival: —
' Summer's busy workshop has long been closed, and Nature has shrouded herself deep within her monumental garments, though, as if to cheer us on the long and dreary winter pilgrimage before us, she charitably reveals a few glimpses of her real features, shows us here a line of bold grey rocks butting through the snow, and there a dashing cascade, which the frost has not yet completely stiffened, till our faith in her hidden beauties is only equalled by our impatience to behold them.