Show IAN AN IRISH IRISH LAND-GRAB LAND INDE INDEED Scientists cie wi Will Try y t to Det ins Atlantic C Co Coast st Waste I A d species of ot land grabbing is at at work In lri ir which no land league as yet vet dreamed of if f cah can resist Th The offender is the Atlantic ocean Prof Th J J. J P. P OReilly has br brought this matter before before- the Royal Irl Irish h academy recently and rid made a proposal proposal pro pro- that measures should be be- betaken taken n not notto notto t tto to Stop the thc c ceaseless waste for lor that exceeds exceeds ex ex- the power of man men but to find out ut at what rate the land is being carried away At the end nd of ot the last tast great geological geological ical period preceding our own the Emeral Emeral Emral Em- Em eral ral lice was Joined to England and Scot Scot- Scotland land and her coast line went much fur fur- thor ther into the Atlantic than it does now Then there existed a barrier of islands seaward if not indeed a continental t plateau that broke e the i force e of f the storms t and waves e so that great a forests o grew over I a large e part of tt the thc country f Such sylvah growth Is now Impossible p owing to the fr harsh ih winds fn that hi come bied directly n from the ocean Prof OReilly believes I that at one time tinie geologically recent recent- I the north of Ireland Irelan formed part of ot a aI I vast plateau that Included Iceland the Hebrides s Greenland and an anil antl the breaking up of Ot this plateau has given e us the benefit of the gulf f stream but ut has a left I Ireland exposed P dg to J the beat t and wear of ot the sea The loss Is enormous an and anil the professor or submitted that it would rr's be becoming TJ on the part of f the Royal Irish l academy to promote a s survey sur sur- I vey at the thc commencement of the tho twentieth twentieth century and to have points fixed as has been done fo to the coast Cast of ot Scant Scant- so that hereafter it may be pos- pos to determine accurately the rate at which the Ilm Island I is 15 being wasted awa away and to ascertain what was it Its former extent ex ex- tent lit in prehistoric and early parly historic times Umes It Il is to he be hoped hopt-d Prof suggestion will Wm be t adopted opted It will be deeply interesting to know at fit the end of the century how much less Jess i is the Emerald Isle than at nt the beginning or whether the waste at one part pait has been made malle up by hy repair at some other London othel London Telegraph |