Note 177 — Chapter IV · LANDED POSSESSION. THE EÐEL, HÍD OR ALOD.
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The hectare is about 2·5 acres. The calculations have been variously made. One is as follows:
Total superficies 52,732,428 hect.
Profitably cultured, including gardens, osieries, willow plantations, orchards, meadows and cultivated pastures } 30,000,000 hect.
Forests and landes 10,000,000 ”
Useless land 7,000,000 ”
47,000,000 ”
Another, and I believe sounder, calculation makes the forests and landes amount to
Forest 8,623,128 hect.
Landes 8,000,00 ”
16,623,128 ”
Where, probably, portions of the wood and lande are not reckoned to the land under profitable cultivation. Still this is a very different thing from being under the plough.