The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-11-20
THE MENACINC SEA
It Threatens to Some Day Engulf
New York and Boston.
OUR EASTERN COAST SINKING.


haps. the Atlantic Ocean, According
to Biologists, Will Flow Over the
Cities That Now Tower Above Its
Shores.
Government geological experts have
calculated that New York, Boston.
Philadelphia and all the other cities
along the Atlantic coast will eventual
~ sink beneath the ocean. They have
observed that there has been steady
sinking of the whole coast, and they
say that 1t il going on at the present
moment.
Biologists have long recognized the
fact that the Atlantic coast line was
much farther out than it Is now. There
Is line from 100 to 800 miles off the
present coast at which the water sud
denly gets deeper. Out to that distance
the water is generally about 800 feet
deep. Then it plunges suddenly and
becomes ten times as far to the oceans
bottom. The men Of the coast survey |
have traced this line throughout the
length of our coast line and ind 1t
similar all along. The biologists say
that the continent once reached out
that far and that there was the coast
line, but a gradual decline through the
ages has caused that line to retreat,
until now It Is where we know 1t.
From a geological standpoint this
has happened in comparatively recent
times It has all been done since the
glacial period. This brings it into the
present period and makes the action
new In fact 1t Is positively known to
be going on now.
There is an ancient sill In the Charles
town navy yard at Boston with re-
gard to which there is definite informa-
ton as to its elevation. 1t was put
In place seventy years ago; its eleva-
ton was given with relation to mean.
high and low tide, and also with refer.
ence to surrounding landmarks. With
relation to the tide this sill has sunk
seven-tenths Of foot. With relation
to the landmarks it has the same posi-
ton. positive proof that Boston har-
Dor and the city about 1t have sunk
seven-tenths of a foot into the sea in
the last seventy years.
The original mouth of the Hudson
river is now 200 miles out to sea The
ships follow its old channel in leaving
port even now, 1t is not known how
long ago it was when the mouth of the
river was not far out in the ocean. But
1t is almost certainty that when a
similar time has elapsed the present
"a mill hO n St 4 h.,
then land.
Similarly will Boston be submerged
Baltimore will disappear at about the
same time and great portions of Wash
ington. The great Mississippi is bring
Ing down great deposits to raise its
delta and counterbalance the decline
So low is New Orleans that it will be
one of the first cities to sink below the
sea level and be a municipality higt
walled against the enemy, the sea. Gal
weston has already felt the encroach
ment of the waters and has been forced
to build itself sea wall
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be diked against their intrusions.
this way New York city might be save
from destruction for a very long tim
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rounded by a high levee. against whic
the ocean will beat with an ever u
creasing advantage. 1t might perpet'
ate itself by artificial means, but In Il
end 1t viii be put in an impossible poe
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