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efficiency while even curtailing its area, and he will, 
let us hope, transform our Southern mountains with 
the intelligence of his higher reason, supplanting the 
charm of wildness with the grace of beauty. Thus 
the triumphant forests will continue to fold these 
ancient heights in their protecting mantle, they will 
beckon the rains to come, and steady the long rivers 
that flow to the sea. 
Lovely, indeed, are the forests. 
