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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OBOUND-WATEK. 47 CHAPTER III. RELATIONS OF WATER TO THE SOIL. The importance of water for the plant, and its uses also, in some part, will have appeared from what has already been set forth; but there is still much to be said concerning the water in the soil. The most familiar source from which any soil derives water ia rain, and it is certain that the agriculture of a country, and indeed the power of a country to support inhabitants, must depend upon the amount of rain that falls within or near its limits. The first question to be considered is, What becomes of the rainwater that has fallen upon the earth and has soaked into it! And this question can perhaps best be answered by considering some special instances where the conditions are not complex. Between the large islands Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, off the southern coast of Massachusetts, there is a little sand island called Huskeget, which, like thousands of other similar islands, well illustrates the subject now under consideration. Muskeget is a mere sand-heap, a mile or so across, elevated a few feet above the surface of the ocean and kept from blowing away by a scanty growth of beach grass. But on digging down two or three feet anywhere into this sand, which was brought there by ocean currents, and is kept there by conflicting tides, a well of fresh water may be obtained. Whence comes this water 1 Manifestly from the rain that falls upon the island; for modern investigations have clearly shown that particles of mere silicious sand have no such power of removing saline matters from solutions as would serve to make sea-water fresh. In the well-holes on the island now in question, the fresh water falls and rises slightly as the tide of the ocean ebbs and flows, and Bo it should, to accord with our...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217675451
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021767545X
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 381 gr

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