George P. Marsh

P R E F A C E.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II. TRANSFER, MODIFICATION, AND EXTIRPATION OF VEGETABLE AND OF ANIMAL SPECIES.

CHAPTER III. THE WOODS.

CHAPTER IV. THE WATERS.

CHAPTER V THE SANDS.

CHAPTER VI. PROJECTED OR POSSIBLE GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES BY MAN.

FOOTNOTES:

APPENDIX.

INDEX

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MAN AND NATURE;

OR,

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION.

BY
GEORGE P. MARSH.

    "Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it."—H. Bushnell, Sermon on the Power of an Endless Life.

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