id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6019 Marsh, George P. (George Perkins) The Earth as Modified by Human Action .txt text/plain 265268 10219 61 experimented little on wild plants, and especially on forest trees. stated as a general rule that European forest and ornamental trees are quantity of water received and given off by the natural wood.] points, forests and water-courses."] A reason for the want of evidence Rain-water is generally absorbed by the forest-soil as fast as it falls, [Footnote: The forest-trees of the Northern States do not attain to States, [Footnote: For full catalogues of American forest-trees, and The Forest does not furnish Food for Man. In a region absolutely covered with trees, human life could not long be in the wood of the natural forest confine themselves to dead trees. Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material Land Artificially won from the Waters--Great Works of Material nearly six times as great as from a like surface of water in the other Rivers, in countries planted by nature with forests and never ./cache/6019.txt ./txt/6019.txt