Excerpt from Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871 At Ballarat, Creswick, Beechworth, Yackandandah, Sand hurst, Heathcote, Maryborough, Avoca, Castlemaine, Fryer's Creek and Ararat, some of the timber for the mines has to be brought already from distances as remote as 10 to 16 miles, according to returns of the Mining Surveyor, kindly furnished by Mr. R. Brough Smyth. At Pleasant Creek the miners have to go every year a mile further for their wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.