| Show 1 I SEA NOT DRYING UP L I Russian Body of Water Is i t Filling Up U v AR1ST9TLE PREDICTED IT I k eL r Sea of Azof Filling Up With Sodlmant of the Don r Outlet for Millions of Bushels of Russian I Rus-sian Wheat and the Phenomenon 1 Phenome-non Causes Alarm New Torlc Dec 290no dispatch j from RiiirSln says thai the Sea of Azof Is difcapnearlnfr and another that It Is I I 1 drying up l This Is startling news of a I I body of water which Is the outlet for millions of bushels of Kusslnn export y when to Fortunately the report Is not quite accurate u sev I The Sea of Azof is not drying up It I Is silting up Its chief water receipts t flic derived from that very dirty river r i the Don which spreads millions or tons of sediment a year over the shallow f floor of the sea This process has been I going on for many ages and the alluvium allu-vium from the Don has been narrowing I seaThe the basin and raising the bed of the The ruins of the town of Tanals t founded by the Greels at the very mouth of the Don are now six miles inland in-land The results of the flillngln process pro-cess are appreciable from century to century but still It is slow work Aristotle Aris-totle himself remarked with regard to I the extinction of the sea that all the t Inhabitants will perhaps 1 have disappeared r disap-peared before the change Is completed h The alarming report Just circulated IG lard to a phenomenon that has occurred in the long narrow arm of the sett yel r known as the Gulf of Taganrog The waters at Taganrog the chief wheat port receded BO that for several days i the bottom of the gulf was visible for two or three miles Vessels are lying J high and dry and the greatest confusion confu-sion prevails in the harbor High winds hurl clouds of sand shoreward C This Is very uncomfortable for all concerned but Is by no means unprecedented unpre-cedented In the Gulf of Taganrog The j mean depth of the gulf Is only ten to twelve feet and It has diminished by nearly two loot since the first charts 1 were made in the time of Peter the rr Great Under the Influence of strong and persistent winds the lovel of the water Is sometimes raised or lowered i 9j as much as ten or even sl teen or sev I enteen feet When the level is lowered the bottom of parts of the gulf is sometimes I some-times exposed to view for several days This IB I not a frequent phenomenon but I It occurs now and then In spite of It i I Taganrog will continue to be 1 one of the chief southern tiorts of the empire for I a long time to come |
