THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



SEPTEMBER, 1835, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, 



Art. I. Instances of the Effects of Forest Vegetation on Climate* 

 By the Rev. W. B. Clarke, A.M. F.G.S. &c. 



Whatever may have been the changes wrought in the 

 climate of Europe by the removal of those great forests which 

 covered so considerable a portion of this quarter of the globe 

 in the days of Caesar and Tacitus ; or however Canada, as 

 asserted by Dr. Kelly (see the statement quoted in M. N. H., 

 vii. 617., from the Quebec Transactions), may have, not- 

 withstanding the clearings of the settlers, still maintained to 

 this day the climate which that part of America possessed two 

 centuries ago, it cannot be denied that effects of a favourable 

 nature have ensued upon various districts, by the diminution 

 of woods and the cultivation of the soil formerly occupied by 

 them. Two striking instances have recently been presented 

 to my notice, which seem to deserve particular attention. 



The first is taken from the very interesting work of the 

 Baron de Brincken, on the forest of Bialowicza in Lithuania.* 

 A few particulars respecting the situation of this forest may 

 not be unacceptable to those who have not much knowledge 

 respecting it. 



After having passed the e.n.e. frontier of Poland Proper, 

 and traversed the river Bug near the little town of Granne, 

 and travelled a day's journey through the territory of Bialy- 

 stok (formerly part of the palatinate of Podlachia, then ceded 



• Memoire Descriptif sur la Foret Imperial© de Bialowicza, en Lithuanie; 

 redige par le Baron de Brincken, conservateur en chef des forets na- 

 tionales de Pologne, membre du de"parteraent des forets a la commission 

 des finances et du tresor, Chevalier de l'ordre de St. Stanislas, 2 me classe. 

 Orne de quatre gravures et d'une carte. Varsovie, chez Glucksberg. 1826. 

 4to, pp. 127. 



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