The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-13

than above, either at the Pont de Ia
TournelIc or the Point d'Austerlitz. and
that the river IS one metre higher at
the Tuileries than at Notre Dame,
which is perfectly Illogical. Should
not a uniform basis be adopted to
give the exact measure Of these
heights!
The Flood of 1868.
It is necessary for US to 90 back to
the middle of the seventeenth century,
to the year 1868, to find a flood sur
passing this one by almost half a
metre. the waters then having reached
eight metres eighty-one centimetres at
the Point de la Tournelle. Neverthe-
less, that disaster had less grave cOnse-
Quences. and the losses were less con-
siderable, althOuh the inundatlon was
still wider. the river then not being
restricted TO its line of modern Quays
and the streets bordering on the Seine
having their surface perceptibly lower
than in our day. For. this time, the
most important inventions which have
for the last century transformed human
ticular-raiIwav subway, tramWays,
electric light, telegraph, telephones,
etc.-were all paralyzed or halted by
the invasion of the rising food, as if
Nature had made it her task to remind
Us Of her sovereignty by opposing her
irresistible forces to the genius OF man.
The flood Of 1868 holds the record
for height None of those which have
taken place since that date have
equaled or surpassed either It or the
present flood, as one may see from the
following little comparative note,
based on the records OF the Pont de la
TournelIe:
1919. I'm. G6cm.; 1868, SIN. Stem; 174o,
I'M. Seem: 1902. I'm. 45cm.; 1876, On.
69cm.; 1883. 6m. 24cm.; 1896, ON.
5jcm.; 1910. SIN. 42cm.
The year 1910, therefore, viii retain
a gloomy fame in meteorological ana
historical annals owing to the phenom-
email elevations of the Seine and to the
devastating floods which resulted from
it. But. contrary to an opinion rather
widespread at this moment, It IS not
due either to the appearance OF Drake :
comet. discovered on January 10. at
Johannesburg, nor to the approach or
Haley co''''' 49,, ,f 30 noo 400
wandering at d "'9.a'0 Tbaso hairIike
hI'o ONE a,D'rI No action an onr me-
4o..roIoa,- and likewise they have no in
seoI i. an" a,r+bnnaIles Tbe Great comet
HutnCt on cal ~ o1 .llo4 of 1875 having
OF Isl l. as wen a. ''''1 W a,,i on ON,
conceded with warm N'"1a '4 faa4s ba,a
ceIIent VINE crop lhGS' wv ,. I,,,: has
been associated ana me [ yo,o ' 4bo now
been drawn that 'o"'e1S H." Tbo+ was
er to warm our al ,I'3 iaa;ac-.7onne
purely an aecIdf" V'l
Origin of the Floods.
,.,-o on,- ,+hnr orrgin
fIoo'r "5l'I ' .Ia sI,;os Aorfno IF
thah Fa," ','il .in,- Ell ar the melt.
too Freely al ''l l"s' - / hotb verv
ing 81 7""" " an,,as down suddenly.
Z -, " ..}';oG f,re in The basin of
me Na'I h.;na forrrI to flow bv 1t to
a =, ~, oa,,-os = to overflow when
/ me- 80 I'a,-,nd its he'd The basin Of
1t SPrea'S re, .' !.+a,oo measures 1900
the SEM lo' - surface and an.
r,,arr,. receives twenty eight billion
n l'II. ,,atras Of rain. Taking off fifty
gUD's so, nv Ear ovanorafion. there remain
per tens IN I;I1;on cnhic metres which
eoo5 zen II .ho water courses of this basin
fech III i"c ""''' ~ l:-.r,r,.,r+ia il+a