Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-12
The New Jer.eN Coast.

Professor Cook sIys a considerable
breadth of land has been worn away
within the last century all along the shore,
from Sandy Hook south 20 Cape MAY, New
jersey Near Shrewsbury inlet the water
line has moved from 165 to $50 feet inland
during the last 2S years opposite the old
Long Branch Hotel the sea has crept S75
feet further up On the beach, and opposite
Whale Pond the encrOachment reaches 525
feet at one point. Near Cape May the
encroachments have been much more
marked. For a mile and half north OF
New England Creek the sea has moved IN
land 040 feet in the last lS7 years. 4
few rods further south tie distance from
the present TO the oIu SEQ line is $50 feet.
Al Cape Island the shore has worn away a
full mile since the Revolution, and even
since The United States Coast Survey was
lnauguratei, so Years ago, the wear along
the beaches northeast from the Cape has
been so great as to require very consider
able changes in the map of the shore lines.
These changes by themselves may very
plausiblv be ascrlbed 10 the continued
breaking of the waves on the land; but in
the salt and o her tide marshes, are evidences
teDGiDg to show that the level of high
water is higher than 1t used to be may be
formed. In many places dead trees are to
be seen Standing Ii The shallow parts Of
tfe marshes. hey can be seen la all the
marshes down the sta, shrre- There is an
extIaOrdInary nuAber OF them il the
MARSHES near DennIsvlIle, ID Cape May.
while there Is evidence that the vast salt
meadows between the Hackensack and
Passaic Rivers which divide Newark IRON
Jersey Z ~, wer. once alable uplaDGs. In
Various parts oi the Stat, people have been
driven 1IOm Their lanus by the gradual
rising Of The sea. Many islands or excel
lent soil, some ct them heavily timbered,
have been submerged. An island IN klsen-
borough contained III 1865 10 acres of good
farm land T,day not u vestige of il Can
be seen. Tie famous Money lslanI has
disappearef, too. At the beginning of the
pres mt century it Was of considerable size
and well umbered. The noted pirate
Capt. Teach, or Blackboard, as be was
poDularly known, wintered there one season
with his crew, early in the last century.
The few and scattered inhabitants of the
neIghborhood believed that Black beard
buried his treasure there. Ii has disap
peared benealh the oceans surface John
Harris, Revolutionary soldier, bought
what was known as Round Island of
Lower Alioway, in 1903 1t contained
then 40 acres OF good upland. He cleared
off the timber and built comfortable farm
buildings on it. subsequently he pur-
chased another island OF about the same
area, near Round Island, and erected
farming buildings ON it. He cultivated
the soil of both. He b,queathed one to
each son. When, after his death, they
went to take possession of their inherI
tances they found that the sea had claimed
both the farms, and the buildings were
taken from them. There is a tradition
that the great saltwater meadows near
Salem were heavily timbered ceuiury
and half ago. Ii is SAID by one who has
made the rising of the sea a study that the
food tides on Delaware Bay rise at least
SIX inches higher than they did 80 years
ago.