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While it is thus quite easy to see how the forest pro- 

 tects the soil, and, by so doing, regulates the flow of 



FIG. 74. How the Land erodes after the Woods are gone. 



(Common sight in Mississippi) 



(After McGee) 



water, the influence of the forest on the climate by 

 making it more temperate and humid is not so plain, 

 and remains still a much- disputed question. 



