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Show Ocean Encroaching on "Tight Little Island" England is gradually sinking into the sea, according to a recently-published government "Blue Taper." But keep your seats, please the rate of the subsidence is estimated at nine inches per hundred years? According to the report, Felixstowe on the east coast is suffering from "that sinking feeling." It has sunk nearly two inches in the past fifteen years. The Bank of England, in the heart of the metropolis, is over six inches lower low-er than in 1S95. St. Paul's cathedral, on the other hand, has dropped only three inches in the same period. That there is a definite movement of the land in relation to the movements move-ments of the tide has now been confirmed. con-firmed. A seismograph in the county hall, Westminster, displayed a movement move-ment of the building corresponding with high and low tides. Observation on Waterloo bridge revealed that the weight of the water caused the structure struc-ture to sink at high tide and rise again at low tide. Railway and other tunnels which run beneath the Thames have been found to change their shape at high tide. The circular cir-cular tunnels are slightly flattened, but return to their normal shape as the tide recedes. Montreal Herald. |