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and small boulders, fallen tree trunks, the dead trunks of former trees 

 and debris from the trees above, with These all tend to moderate the flow of 

 the banks held by fern roots and roots the water and dissipate it. 



of bushes, checking, in a large meas- 



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ure, the rush of the water. On the 

 adjacent hillsides are the trees, whose 

 foliage breaks the force of the rainfall. 

 On the ground are the bushes, ferns, 

 and dead branches, and now and then 



lumbered over and then burned. There 

 your ravine bottoms are the same, all 

 but the bushes and ferns on the banks, 

 but up on the hillsides are furrows 

 by the dozen ; and the deeper and 



