id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 37957 Marsh, George P. (George Perkins) Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action .txt text/plain 236095 10162 64 FOOD FOR MAN--FIRST REMOVAL OF THE WOODS--EFFECTS OF FIRE ON FOREST TREES--PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOREST--AMERICAN FOREST TREES--SPECIAL CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN WOODS-earth, and but a very small quantity of water runs off from the surface. of surface water into the natural channels of drainage, tend to check soils readily imbibe a great deal of water, yet the grass lands, and all river floods, and from the sea water also, when heavy or long-continued Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never waves which throw up sea sand on the beach, and deposited in deep water, of sand deposits along high-water mark.[422] If the land winds are of sand much resembling dunes are formed under water at some distance from the quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood. trees planted in proper earth, moderately watered and covered with a ./cache/37957.txt ./txt/37957.txt