Show they are tinker ng W th pisa ling to the find rigs of a royal commission appointed to investigate the present condition of the lean ng tower of pisa it appears that instead of being supported on a massive found atlon the tower rests on a ring shaped masonry base with an in ner diameter of 24 feet 3 inches exactly the same as the inner diame eter of the tower the tower is about feet high and in 1829 is said to have been 14 feet 5 inches out ol 01 plumb since that time its inclination has been increased by an additional 0 foot per foot of its height in 1834 an earthquake caused a deflection of about five inches |