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CHAPTER V
FORESTRY
Finland is one of the best wooded countries in Europe.
The woods in Finland occupy a larger space than all
the pasture land contained in Great Britain and
Ireland; while Finland itself is as big as the whole
United Kingdom, with the addition of Holland and
Belgium. More than half of the country — it is said
as much as 64 per cent. — is covered by forests. The
true forest land, on dry soil, is generally reckoned at
46 per cent. of the surface of the country, or four
times as much as all the agricultural, plough and
prairie land put together. But in addition to this,
much of the remaining 54 per cent. (consisting of
morass, bogs, lake, and rock) is partially covered with
trees. Some people reckon that the marsh land in
which pines are found is 30 per cent. of the total
wooded area. The whole country is about 90 million
acres in extent, of which 36½ million acres are dry
forest land, 8½ million acres are devoted to agriculture,
and 45 millions are without much value, though
partially covered with trees. When different estimates
are made of this wooded surface it is due to the
different meanings given to the word forest. At any
rate, Finland is mainly forest land.
It is to these woods that “the land of a thousand
lakes” (or, to be more nearly accurate, of ten
thousand lakes) owes its great beauty. We who live in
more elaborately cultivated lands can hardly form an
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