40 ON TIllC RAINFALL OF SIN.UAL'OHE. 



quantities of firewood daily and the wants of an increasing popula- 

 tion, will, in time, toll on the supply, and it is the incumbent duty 

 of the present occupants, and of the Government too, to make due 

 provision for the indispensable wants of those yet to come, by 

 planting many of the hillsides, now entirely denuded of vegeta- 

 tion, with suitable forest trees* 



* I cannot sufficiently express my thanks for the convenience of having 

 access to the valuable hooks of lcference in the Rallies Library and to the books of 

 the Logan Library lor much of the information gleaned therefrom. 



