Answer:
The underlined words in the passage are...
pour down, left bare, die, made muddy, drowned, flooded, filled with the salt water
Explanation:
I believe that the message the author is trying to convey in this excerpt is that humans need to take action to end further destruction of the natural environment, because if they don't, more and more species will disappear.
The letter has information inside challenging Romeo to a duel
