Senate Doc. No. 84. 



Plate XXX. 



FORESTS REGULATING THE FLOW OF STREAMS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. 



(See pp. 29-31; 137-H2.) 



The leaves and brauohes above break the furee of the raindrop,s; the shrubs, ferns, and hnnius below eatoh 

 the water and pass it slowly downward into the soil and rock crevices: and fnun tliis great natural 

 reservoir, weeks or even month.s later, this water emcrfies in the numberless springs about the lower 

 mountain slopes, and feeds the great rivers tliat cross tlie liiU country below. 



