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Show They Are Tinkering With Pisa. According to the findings of a royal commission appointed to Investigate the present condition of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It appears that. Instead of being supported on a massive foundation, found-ation, the tower feats on a ring-shaped ring-shaped masonry base, with an Inner In-ner diameter of 24 feet iS Inches, exactly the same as the Inner dlame-eter dlame-eter of the tower. The tower Is about 177 feet high, and In 1829 Is said to have been 14 feet S Inches out of plumb; since that time Its Inclinatloa has been increased by an additional 0.0O&S foot per foot of 1U height, in 1134 an earthquake caused a deflectioa of about five Inches, |