Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-09

| ever witnessed there are other forces
also at war And while there is hope
that the great human saturnalia may
soon end, there is no such hope in the
great struggle of the forces of nature,
for it is truceless war that the wa
tiers of the world are waging against
its lands.
Mr.. John Oliver LaGorce, Associate
Editor of the National Geographic So
ciety, has recently prepared for that
institution a study of this striking
struggle between the earth and the
sea with the shorelines of the world
as the far flung theatre of war.
After calling attention to the fact
that the process which have trans
formed the polar regions from dense
jungles of tropical growth into lands
OF perpetual ice and snow, which
have brought the tops of mountains to
the bottom of the sea and the bottom
Of the sea to the tops of mountains. are
still going on, although the hands upon
the face of the clock of geology moves
50 slow that we can not perceive their
movement, Mr.. LaGorce continues:
Along every coast line on the face
Of the earth there is perpetual war
fare between the land and the sea, with
the wind as the shifting line, now
throwing its weight into the balance
Oh the one side and now on the other.
Here the land is taking the offensive,
driving the sea back by foot, always
with the aid of the wind; there the sea
marshals great drive, and eats it's
way landward slowly and laborously.
! but none the less successfully The
varying fortunes of this relentless and
age-long war, which neither truce
nor treaty will ever bring to an end, can
be read in the shifting sands of the
seashore. At many points along the
coast of the Northeastern States are
found bold cliffs, and the charging sea
attacks them with the shot and shell
of loose shingles. Some of them,
however, are adamant and impregna-
Ible in their frontal Notifications and
holG out again the sorest siege. but
between them have occurred stretches
OF softer rock which have been liter.
ally pounded to dust by the oceans
heavy artillery, thus permitting flank
attacks on the hitherto unconouered
defenses.
Along the southeastern coast, how
ever, the rock bound cliff is the excep-
ton and the long stretches of glitter
ing sand the rule. Here the sandy
beech teaches further and further in
to the esa, and the water is thus enabl-
ed to penetrate farther and farther in
to the land, because the attack of the
sea is usually frontal movement and
that of the land frequently a wedge at
tack; thus we can account for the long
straight shore on the one hand and the
split on the other.
The formation of the beach immed-
lately guarded by the Cape Henry light
is not changing so rapidly as is the
case only few miles on either side
because of its somewhat protected DO
sltion, due to the many sand bars or
reefs far out from shore, which, acting
as the first trenches, serve to break the
charge of the white horses of Father
Neptune as the dash in from the ocean
and because of this knowledge of de- /
tense, it is plain to be seen that a good
quarter of mile of beach has been
added by the defended since the old
hight was erected.
"Rockaway Beach. Long Island
grows westward at the rate of nearly |
mile every 20 years. At Nag Head,
North Carolina. the land has extended
into the sea at the rate Of 50 feet a
year. In 1904 DR.. Nathaniel Bod
witch prepared a chart of Salem and
MarDlehead harbors, giving the sound
mss over various lodges of rock. Nine
~ years later similar sounding were