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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
to the detriment of most foundations. Thus the present returns and value of the foundational property would be insured, while under common farm management it would sink to the common yield and value of the capital, to the loss of the national revenue.
In addition to this, immediately after my death, six practical learners will be received and supported, and after three years supplanted by others.
In case of the death of my heirs and issue, the whole foundation fund will fall to the nation for the establishment of an Agricultural College, where, also, the industries connected with agriculture would be taught according to principles determined by myself.
For this I have no doubt of the royal assent, since the purpose is entirely directed towards the general good.
Part II. — Forestry.
At the north-western extremity of the grounds, there was an interesting display of the results of the cultivation of forest trees. Here, huge trees, stripped of all branches, were lying side by side, and trees of smaller sizes were also exhibited; these had been cut in such lengths as would allow of transportation, and were so placed as to show the full size of the original tree. A great variety of wood was here represented, which was remarkable for its perfection of growth and clearness of grain. Collections of manufactured articles, both useful and ornamental, made from the various woods, were exhibited in neighboring sheds and houses, the latter being entirely constructed of wood.
The whole system of preparing the wood for market was also represented by models displaying the successive operations from the time it was felled in the forests. One plan, by which the logs are sometimes conveyed, in the absence of water-courses, and where neither wagons nor sleds are employed, seems worthy of explanation. A wire-rope tramway is suspended on firmly fixed supporters, in such a manner that the wire-rope forms a single track, upon which trucks run, and from the trucks are suspended, by blocks and ropes, the logs to be conveyed. When the logs go down hill, their weight furnishes the power for returning the empty trucks,