Geographical Changes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 166, 19 June 1883, Page 2

Geographical Changes.

Nature is playing the, American continent a scurvy frisk. The NewTek Times says :—" The rivers and lesser stieamr of the 'Atlantic States are visibly smaller than they we-e twentyfive years ago. Owiag to the springs aad rains which once aferred as feeders, many conn try brooks have totally disappeared ; whih the level of the great lakes fall year by year, and nuny piers on the shores of lakeside cities, where vessels once approached with ease, now hardlyreach to" tb^e; .\edge : of the water. Harbours are growing shallow, and all the dredging;' which can 'be' lone ia New York harbour will nob permanently deepen it ■;' white ■' th"at rr of Toronto has $rown shallow ;in spite of such deep dredging as to rftaei the bottom rock. The Hudson is notably affected, : and miny places daring ther siimriieVare .almost bare in_M;b.e upp ?r water, Jf these details are correct we should imagine thd phenomena due nob so rnaifi to the diinmation of thd water .supply; as to the. gradual upheaval of. the land, similar .to t tjiat :which iatakVng place m che Sc'andiQa_vian peninsula.''