The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-19

T'HURSDl,|A '][:]L:U D A !. Z, JULY 10
tation. rain is almost a wonder, and q
the time of Boussihgalt there had beer
no rain for seventeen years. In til,
whole country from Lachau to Lima
rain Is as scarce ,as tees. In France, i
the District of LIE Bocage in Vendee
while the forests we're yet untouched
there was a5superaGty Of moisture il
meadows and fields, aid the roads were
never dry. ID 1908 Tie entire extirpa
ton Of woods began, land now rain sci
dom falls. 4 The. field are baked anl
hard in ,summe the grass upon the
meadow is Poof and The the roads are dig
and dusty. 5Yhec facts, collated by The
author Of The aeicle alluded to, are al.
scorroborated blythe accounts from The
,prairies Of Te18 and the West in oul
own on country. il the Smithsonian Re.
port in 1869, il an article from the
French, there il an account of the Eu.
.phrates which, ahough rendered for the
purpose of sboWis the diminished vol
ume Of streams tier destruction of for.
sestss. SO clearly shSs their decreasing in.
Z Huence upon the infall proper, that
will, add to itwhaI consider already an
ample list of Satisfactory testimony
He says that Stbo informs US that it
was necessary Dlke great precautions
to prevent the co4ry of Baby ylonia from
being submerged. she Euphrates; which
begins to swell iathe close Of spring,
when the SHOWS elt on the, mountains
of Armenia, o9erms at The beginning
Of summer, and 5Nld necessarily form
vast accumulate water on the cuI-
l.tiyated lands, we not the superfux
turned aside by bins. of trenches and
canals. ;.;.-s1i.. ..f
l3M. Oppest; who som|ears ago Travelled
| through Babyl ylonia, prts that the vol
4 ume Of water conYeyby the: :Euphrates
4 is much less thanin It ages; that in
undations no longeiecur;; that the
canals are dry, the nhes exhausted by
1.-THE great heats Of fs{ner, and that the
country has ceased Sbe insalubrious
jIThis retreat Of watersYs he in concln-
4 sion, can only be attrfed, as he found
Emeans to satisfy himsE to- the clearing
A away Of the forests onb Mountains Of
4 Armenia. s. T; Is g
4 Now, these forests nIeing present to
| retardS the melting of tAow in the first
4 instance, norsto obstrrHnd absorb the
.Etorrents IN their desceios 1.-THE river it
]. should, Of course, fshoIigher freshets
asionally, not only lycause Of the:
greater amount Of ofwaterown in sud-
denly, but also by req ofsthe filling
up Of the bed SbyIs stheld land sands
brought down by the1 TAeref fore, a
, decrease IN the altitu& Tile 2freshets
; Emust be attributed 20 D hre bf rainfall
at its sources; caused Ihe dearing of
. forests. gs;;s sst1 81 .585l eii4 f.
THE TIE FORESTS As sISgusEs 9l' pr ss97S ato1s-
+ Forests are promotes genehI mois-
4 ture ;by maintaining \ constsncy Of
4 streams which, Yin hsassaga to the
q = s sea serpesas W ,s canals Of iItion mfpnly
A
!. to the lands lying aloSheir 6urses.
8 but By suppl lyiig the Sspher, with
! moisture, increse the tipitatbns of
Edews for some distance luHhe hills.
The usefulness of wooa storiig up
Y | waters having been dsmSf Sfated, / see
8 Iino objection consider them the
2 9 sources Of. sprigs;; for the not asot-
q ton field .negroIn the Soutt utthetheihel
= has oceupied abeat in the Islatur OF |
y not. who does isot know thIringa;ss ,reI
7-fruined by cleaing away conous tr.
9, 4ests. Springs Ire the source brook
q, Ibroo,k Ks of creeb /; creeks Of Is. .Tes |
]. clearing away f forests, them at affet
te in the most dibctway the sup Sc thas
rss edingly numerous canalAaiich d
!. much ;mitigat the severity 9onehAl
81 las is amply sBwn by the heay yss aid,
Of immense dephits of deYs tRre ID
Of otter: seen alo|g their courses ell IS.
Y. u ||s;by the more luxlriant appeae al
es crops and sge1fal egetation:
le ,Ifanthoritis were needed herbull
OF adduce more han could be given love
er. any other prdositio in this .artlcbut
IT as Il have ia IL minds eye a smah EEK
m m near me, upol which Z have huntnd
ne Efshedi for Stwtlty years, and hayeeG
!es Che dininutid oft waters as the It.
lt1s z we're feIled arund its sources, and 3
OF with Others, rinarked the 're-estabha,
lg. tof its volumeince these lands wef
IS. stocked with ines and old field plur
he shall not nowdraw upon foreign g
ep tries. but disliss the subject with
by single plantatn illustration.
ssa ~ INCREASE IN sHE ALTITUDE oF FIR
aal ETs. Z
N aIt is also tr|e that the clearing OF
ire .ests increases the altitude of fres
az. This results, as before noted, iron
nd causes susss, and a matter Of observ
If certainly Wit ali who have noted
s streams ofstt South. / will give
10 one illustratbn of this, although
are very mary more at my conn
the Wateree Geek, a; stream OF my.
,gh county, and of sufficient magnitut
ad- change the lame Of the Catawba
his that Of Wabiee River after its jun'
. of Thirty to.fdty yearaago the clear,
seri- waters Of bis creek eemed: awltf
m nr. finest fish, I'D, were never failing.
h now ordinarily a muddy and insight
in in stream, witout even the presence 9
Az = little minlpw, being frequently d
1 q weeks at time; SO dry that q 7, 2
ant IT. Who plantsupon its banks, probaabl
= I 4 miles frorlits source, informs me th
and 4 a saw, durig the summer of 1856, mo
nti- glories,, WITCH had sprung up in its
Wither al die for, want of water
i'm. vet at tls point after heavy rains,
sur unfrequ1tly shows a depth oft
IN nm feet. in he channel, whilst its aru
in in waters te spread from hill to hill, {
90 tating cops and sweeping away &C
artb I the init planting lands of the CO..
biils lswhichtappeni along the. .thousal
s +bs ,ualleYthat intersect the South, b
;Jiy E ;dedi nllions Of bushels of breadst'
oods our anual imp portations, Tor 1t was
ring S the lperiors moisture ofgthe loy
Nit N that be country has been dependel