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Show INFLUENCE OJF TREES UPON 1 I CLIMATE. . J OAcum FnEDEitic Sahouw; Professor of Botany at Copenhagen, speaks as follows I of the influence of forests upon tho attno-splieret. attno-splieret. "W'd'Jind the most, evident, signs of it In. the , torrid zone. Tim 'forests increase j tho rain uud moisture, and produce' springs and ruunhig.strcams. Tracts des- lit'utc of woods becoiu'u very strongly heated,, the air abovuihem ascends jwr-l pendicnlarly, and thus pre'ventf life cloudi 1 ,1'rOiB ' slufcliig, and tho" cohst'.tfit wtiidsi trade'-ivjudsorjnoiiibonsjf where trvey Van bldwuintcrruptcdly over, large sur-, faccVdo out alfow the trauiitiou of va; PQrvfuio tho foriirdf drop In ihe; ioretgt ou thecflntrary, tlid clothed soil "does not become so 'heated, und, besides, the evaporation frtmi the trees' favors" cooling: therefore, wljen ihn ciirfcnts of; air loaded wifll viitrart relicb the forests,,, they meet with thaVwlWrcpmiense tlietu3 und change Intd rain. Since, ' moieuve.r,, evajioration of the eafth goes On more loly beucalh the trees, and iinco. these also evaporate Very copiously in a' hot climate, the atmosnhere lit those forests ' ! has a high degrco of humidity, thla great ' j humidity at the siiue time ptoduelngj many, sjirings. aud streams," ' j |