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For I am convinced that we are witnessing the sudden intrusion and the swift spread of an absolutely harmless organism one that has been, perhaps, dormant for centuries in the soil, or has evolved to its present form in the deep waters of the Elan watershed by a process whose nature we can only dimly guess at.
And in those days there were lots of trees easier to come at." "It's great timber!" repeated Bob. "That 'sugar's' eight feet through if it's an inch!" "Nearer nine," said California John. "It'll be some years' work to estimate and plot all this," mused Bob. "If it's so important a watershed, what do they want it plotted for? They'll never want to cut it."
The watershed begins to have a northern slope about Moamba's, lat. 10° 10' S., but the streams are very tortuous, and the people have very confused ideas as to where they run.
They couldn't make the park complete without Plunkitt's swamp, and they had to pay a good price for it. Anything dishonest in that? Up in the watershed I made some money, too. I bought up several bits of land there some years ago and made a pretty good guess that they would be bought up for water purposes later by the city.
This valley continues to mount to yet more sterile regions, until, reaching the great watershed of the Toblacher Plain, which sends part of its streams to the Adriatic, the others to the more distant Black Sea, it gradually dips down again to the fruitful wine-regions of Lienz. We have now, however, to do with Bruneck, where our venerable 1990 had safely deposited us at the modern inn, the Post.
There is testimony that even within the memory of men now living there has been a serious diminution of the rainfall of northeastern China. The level of the Sungari River in northern Manchuria has been sensibly lowered during the last fifty years, at least partly as the result of the indiscriminate rutting of the forests forming its watershed.
Although the struggle for progressive change is continuous, there are times when a watershed is reached when there is if not really a break with the past at least the fulfillment of many of its oldest hopes, and a stepping forth into a new environment, to seek new goals. I think the past 5 years have been such a time. We have finished a major part of the old agenda.
Grandfather's farm, which he and Grandmother carved out of the wilderness in the last years of 1700 and where Father was born in 1802, lies just over the hill on the western knee of Old Clump, and is in the watershed of West Settlement, a much broader and deeper valley of nearly a dozen farms, and to which my home valley is a tributary.
Besides all this, he had an infinite quantity of silver and gold unwrought in Cuzco. The counterpart of all these marvels Raleigh hoped to find, when he had sailed up the Orinoco to its watershed.
I cannot account for the great humidity of the watershed as compared with the rest of the country, but by the prevailing winds and the rains being from the south-east, and thus from the Indian Ocean: with this wind generally on the surface one can observe an upper strong wind from the north-west, that is, from the low humid West Coast and Atlantic Ocean.
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