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forest, and thus diminished the rain supply to a point which 

 makes famine a possibility. Yet in the surroundings of 

 Monrovia, as throughout much of Liberia, you feel as though 



175. WATERSIDE VEGETATION — PANDANUS, MANGROVE, PALMS 



you would like to banish the forest and ' the bush and begin 

 anew with domesticated, cultivated, and easily controlled 

 vegetation. Not a few of the landward streets of Monrovia 



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