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The whole problem of the pluviometrical influence of the forest, general or local, is so exceedingly complex and difficult that it cannot, with our present means of knowledge, be decided upon a priori grounds.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

It is, upon the whole, evident that the question can hardly be determined except by the comparison of pluviometrical observations made at a given station before and after the destruction of the woods.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.