Figure 1. Table 1. Figure 2.

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Table 1-1. Table 1-2.

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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES The location of modern place-names referred to in any part of this report. Background information on the recorders of relevance to their tree descriptions. The hierarchy of French rule on lle Saint—Jean. . .

The geographically-specific references to fires and burned areas in the north-east of the island in the records of the French period. . .

French units of linear and area measure and monetary values in the eighteenth century. . .

The location of all of the French place-names mentioned in the extracts. A reduced photocopy of the 'Arrigrand map' of lle Saint-Jean. The location of the geographically-specific forest descriptions in La Roque (1752).

The location of the geographically-specific forest descriptions in Pichon (1760).

APPENDIX 1 The French names used for the trees occurring on lle Saint-Jean. The tree lists: the species occurring in lists of the trees of lle Saint-Jean.

The tree tally: a tally of all of the records for each of the tree species on lle Saint-Jean.

The geographically-Iocatable references to specific tree species (in the original French) in records of the French period.

The geographically-locatable references to specific tree species (in English translation) in records of the French period. . .

The ranking of the tree species according to their frequency in the tree lists and in the tree tally. .

APPENDIX 2

The forest mammals and birds recorded on lle Saint-Jean in documents of the French period.

A diagram showing the main trophic (i.e. feeding) relationships between the various

terrestrial mammals recorded on lle Saint-Jean in French period records . APPENDIX 3

The conjectured site where pine trees were extracted by the Marine in the 17205.

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