88 ESSAY UPON UEtWOOD. 



Few of our readers can realize the great loss by smashing 

 up at the tremendous fall of these giant Cedars, as they 

 plunge headlong, thundering down the dark forest and deep 

 glen, spreading ruin broadcast, as seen everywhere, save 

 where so soon as possible it is burned out of sight. 



As for any graded uses worthy of the name, either of the 

 upper lighter, or lower heavier parts, or for fuel, these and 

 many other economics are unheeded, if even heard of; yet 

 Cipon these wastes it is not so much our purpose to dwell, 

 although we may refer to them time and again. Moreover it 

 is pertinent to any forest, to make a passing remark upon 

 its local and general climatic influences and extra commercial 

 uses, for this not only concerns us, but the most part of man- 

 kind, if not all. 



We have often heretofore passed in our testimonial ob- 

 servations from numerous examples known in all lands, local- 

 ities the most notable and close at hand, and of every clime; 

 yet there are thrice negative minds doomed still to walk be- 

 nighted beneath the mid-day sun, themselves their own dun- 

 geon, with evidences clear as day all around them, evidences 

 of the manifestly injurious effect of indiscriminate and heed- 

 less forest denudation : of course, this is not the place to 

 present such vast arrays of proof; we can only affirm what 

 every tyro knows ; the drying up of springs, streams, wells, 

 and waterpools, yea, sweeping away every vestige of vegeta- 

 tion, robbing and devastating the power of future production, 

 and even banishing the very soil itself! Why not, then, 

 place these forests under specific and provisional lease for a 

 term of years, to revert to Government, State or National, to 



