Schlich's Manual of forestry . heep and goatsthe natural growth disappeared, while the tread of thebeasts loosened the soil. The annual monsoon rains, thoughnot heavy, soon commenced a process of erosion and of carry-ing away the surface soil. Gradually, small and then largeravines and torrents were formed which have torn the hillrange into the most fantastic shapes, while the debris hasbeen carried into the plains forming fan-shaped accumulationsof sand. These, commencing at the places where the torrentsemerge from the hills, reach for miles into the plain, andhave already covered and rendere
Schlich's Manual of forestry . heep and goatsthe natural growth disappeared, while the tread of thebeasts loosened the soil. The annual monsoon rains, thoughnot heavy, soon commenced a process of erosion and of carry-ing away the surface soil. Gradually, small and then largeravines and torrents were formed which have torn the hillrange into the most fantastic shapes, while the debris hasbeen carried into the plains forming fan-shaped accumulationsof sand. These, commencing at the places where the torrentsemerge from the hills, reach for miles into the plain, andhave already covered and rendered sterile extensive areas offormerly fertile fields. Indeed, one of these currents, or driftsof sand, has actually carried aMay a portion of the town ofHoshiarpur. The evil has by no means reached its maximumextent,* and, if curative measures are not adopted at an earlydate, the progress of transporting the hill range into the plainwill go on until the greater part of the fertile plain stretching * See Biuleu Powells The FIdshiarpur Clios, showing the formation of a toncnt by elusion.(From Haltn-Powells [>amphlet.) [TnfeKei,og.;liy>
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