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ing, carpenter and cabinet work, and its uses in wagon and car- 

 riage building, etc. What has been true in America, in regard 

 to the uses of timber, has also been true of other countries to 

 which it has been exported. To the forests alone must be cred- 

 ited the marvelous progress and even the inventions of the last 

 hundred and fifty years ; and, unless re-forestration be corn- 



Photo 199, On the Hillside. 



menced and prosecuted with energy, the "passing of the forests" 

 means the retrogression of civilization. 



"What are you giving us? We are only in the infancy of 

 inventions ! The mind of man is marvelous ! As soon as one 

 thing is exhausted, he discovers something else ; we talk across 

 the ocean and soon will be riding through the air ; we'll need no 

 trains or ships ; besides, the bowels of the earth are full of coal 

 and ore. Away with your 'calamity howling' ; three cheers for 

 progress and the human brain !" That sounds "loud," even for 



