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Identifier: worldsopportunit00guer (find matches)
Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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FORESTS AND THEIR PRESERVATION. 241 for the last fifty years been given to clothing the steep hill-sideswith forests, and it is well settled that the quantity of absoluterainfall upon the island is twice what it was when Napoleon wasimmured in his ocean-barred dungeon. The reason is obvious.Trees in a hot climate always have a temperature lower thanthat of the surrounding atmosphere. The heated air, loadedwith invisible moisture which it has sucked up while passingover the surface of the ocean, comes in contact with thesecooler trees and is forced to give up a portion of its moisture,which is condensed in the form of rain or dew. It is a repe-tition, upon a larger scale, of what occurs when a vessel of icedwater is brought into a heated room. Even when trees cannot be shown to exert any positive in-fluence in increasing the absolute rainfall, they act most potent-ly in the more important matter of regulating its distribution,equalizing it from one season to another. They shelter thegr

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