The Indian Forester October 1878

to the fertility of the adjacent garden and rice lands and indeed) of the country generally with the further disadvantageous effect of a considerable increase of the annual mean temperature and...of the dryness of the climate. [...] The facts then adduced seemed to justify the conclusion that the foliage of trees greatly influence the purity humidity and temperature of the atmosphere and the supply of water on the earth's surface by attracting clouds and condensing the moisture in the atmosphere diminishing local temperature protetting the soil from the action of the sun's ray% and husbanding the rain by and his conclu [...] thinned or remove the trees which clothe the hill sides of the district he inhabits the rain diminishes or rapidly runs off the rivers dry up and the previous fertility of the lands completely disappears an d " by felling the trees that cover the tops and sides of the mountains men in every climate prepare at once two calamities for future generations— the want of fuel and scarcity of water [...] General Cullen laid great stress on the value of mountain chains in arresting and condensing the vapour of the atmosphere and on the effect of forests during a great part of the year in preventing the dissipation of the superficial moisture but he doubted if that circumstance could have much influence on the rainfall or on the supply of water froni spring-sr Another letter made public by the [...] the most earnest manner from Mangalore denouncing the Coomree a destructive form of cultiVation mentioning that the forests had been largely destroyed and urging their preservation pointing out the injurious effects produced Oh the climate and on the fertility of the soil by the extensive clearance of a country and recommending a declartion of the right of the Government to all forests whi