Rimmel, Eugene: Recollections of the Paris exhibition of 1867 (London, 1868)

RECOLLECTIONS OF

CHAPTER V.

RAW MATERIALS.

The section of Raw Materials possesses but little attraction
for the general public, yet it contains immense and varied
sources of wealth.

In the first room, we find some interesting specimens of
the various woods produced by France, exhibited by a
Government Institute called Ecole Forestiere, and a plan of
one of the Vosges forests, showing a schlette or rail-track, by
means of which one man can bring a heavily loaded truck
down a steep hill.

The next room contains a large collection of seeds from
Vilmorin-Andrieux ; tobacco of all sorts from the Imperial
Manufactory, and samples of honey, wax, resins, wools, oils,
and hops from different departments.

Flanders and Picardy had at one time the monopoly of
flax and hemp, but Normandy and Britany are now com-
peting with them, and the specimens shown by Rouxel of
St. Brieuc, Leconte of Morlaix, Larible of St. Aubin, and
Moutardier of Thilleul, seem quite equal to those of their
rivals.

Silk-worm cocoons are sent from divers parts, but the most
remarkable exhibition of that kind is supplied by M. Guerin-