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Show "Drowned Rivers." In nearly ovo y caso theso natural bottles are what tho gcosraphor calls "drovrned livers." That h to say, tho coastal lands In tho vicinity havo subsided, allowing tho sea to (low In and convert what was a lowland valloy Into a partly Inclosed marlno area. Divers havo gone to tho bottom of Now York bay and havo found tlioro tho nnclotit bed of tho Hudson river, a3 that stream (lowed beforo tho mouthwnrd part of Its valley subsided Into tho sea. , Tho old bod roachra through the narrows and woll out Into tho floor of tho Atlantic. Of course, qH tho sra water entered tho ulnklng valloy, any hills rising thoreubout would become Islands, In tils now order of things. And thoro wo find them to th day! in alinoat any of- these Inclosed Inlets. In-lets. St. Nicholas. |