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Show Missouri 40,000 Tears Hence. According to the engineers of the hy-drographic hy-drographic bureau, the level of the gulf of Mexico is one foot higher than it was in 1859, and, of course, the encroachment encroach-ment On the Stirroixi.'Un,cDfKtS.baTb greater or less, pending on their character. charac-ter. In some places, where the marginal lands are composed of high, rocky bluffs, this change of level has gone on from year to year without attracting attention. atten-tion. On the other hand, many low lying ly-ing points (some that were onco inhabited inhab-ited by the primitive inhabitants or by the pioneer white settlers), are entirely entire-ly submerged. The cause of this change of level has not as yet been ascertained, but it is reasonably certain that it is the result of either a settling of the dry land or of a general and uniform rising or upheaval in the gulf'bed. No man who has given the matter a moment's thought will argue that there is more water in the gulf now than there was 35 years ago. On the contrary, there isn't the least doubt but that there is much less. However this may be, if this aqueous encroachment i3 steadily maintained, Keokuk will be a deep water harbor and St. Louis and the whole of Missouri will be entirely submerged in less than 40,000 years from Jan. 1, 1895. St. Louis Republic. |