A SINKING CITY.
J. R. Freeman, of the Metropolitan Welter Board of Massachusetts, is the authority for the assertion thiit Boston is sinking into the sea. He assorts that the present datum plane, to which all elevations aro referred by the engineering department of the city of Boston, and which is commonly known as Boston b:ise, probably coincided almost exactly in the year 1830 with the mean lov,-- water afc the CharlcKtown navy-yard. To-day, after a lapse of seventy-two years, the same datum plane, as defined by numerous bench-marks on solid ground, according to the best available ' determination, is 0.79 ft below mean lowwater. This comparison shows that the i land now stands about 0.79 ft lower relatively to the sea than it did about seventytwo years ago, and shows that the land in Boston and vicinity is sinking at the rate of about lft per one hundred years.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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149A SINKING CITY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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