...shown in reverse on their removal, is that of equalising the distribution of moisture on the land. When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture...is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain that wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted. The wooded hills become ridges...

...balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations ; and she avenges herself upon the intruder, by letting loose upon her...forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored np in its vegetable mould is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched...

...shown in reverse on their removal, is that of equalising the distribution of moisture on the land. When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture...is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain that wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted. The wooded hills become ridges...

...shown in reverse on their removal, is that of equalising the distribution of moisture on the land. When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture...is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain that wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted. The wooded hills become ridges...

...balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creatious, and she avenges herself upon the intruder by letting loose upon her...forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored np iu its vegetable mold is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched...

...the timber of these mountains to supply the valleys as well as the foothills with lumber. Says Marsh: When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which the...

...balance which nature had established between her organized and hor inorganic creations, and she avenges herself upon the intruder by letting loose upon her...great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that...

...productiveness and population." And again, this distinguished author, speaking on this same subject, says: "When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust, into which that...

...ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established. When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated. It is desirable that some large, and easily accessible region of American soil should remain as far...

...balance which nature had established between her organic and her inorganic creations, and she avenges herself upon the intruder, by letting loose upon her...has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action."16 In Marsh's view it is not the mere conservation of resources that matters, not a more efficient...