{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
Snbsidencc ofhe BaHic.--A very sneu.
lar and interesting fact (says the Scotsman
has been asccrtained respecting the leveltt
the Baltic. II has been long suspected tia.
the waters OF this sea were gradually sink.
ing; but a memoir, published in the Swedish
Transactions for 1928, has put the change
beyond doubt. M. Bnncrono, assisted bv
some officers Of the Swedish plotting estab
lshmcnt, has examined the Swedish coasf
with great care, from lat, Sc to 62. and Mr.
Halstorm has examined those of the gulf of
Bothnia. The results Of both inquiries are
given in the form OF table, and though as
might have been expected, they are not
completely uniform, they correspond suffi
ciently to place the subsistence of the wat.
crs beyond dispute. The Baltic, it is obsery.
ed has no tides, and IS therefore favourable
situated for making observations on its level
but with regard to the periods within which
the changes have taken place, it was Of
course necessary to rely on records or oral
testimony. At the latitude of IS, where the
Baltic unitss with the German Ocean
through the Categat, no change seems to be
perceptiblc. But from lat Sc to 63, the
observations show a mean fall Of one foot and
a half in forty years, or four tenths of an
inch annually, or three feet ten inches in a
century. In the gulf of Bothnia, the results
are more uniform, and indicate a mean fall
Of four feet four iuchcsin a century, or rather
more than half an inch annually. The Bal
tic is very shallow at present, and if the
waters continue to sink as they have done,
Rcvel, Abo, Narva, and hundred other
ports, will by and by be inland towns; the
CULTS Of Bothnia and Pindland, and ultimate
ly the Baltic itself. will be changed into dry
land