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Excerpt from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1835, Vol. 1
IT is now more than one hundred years since the Swedish naturalist celsius ex pressed his Opinion that the waters, not only Of the Baltic, but of the whole Northern Ocean, were gradually sinking; and he represented their level as lowering at the rate Of forty Swedish inches in a century*. He Observed that several rocks which not long ago were sunken reefs and dangerous to navigators, had become in his time above water; that the sea was constantly leaving dry new tracts Of land along its borders that ancient ports had become inland towns; and that Old fishermen and seafaring people could testify that at a variety Of places, both on the shores Of the Baltic and the ocean, considerable changes had taken place within the time Of their memory, in the form of the coast and depth of the sea. Lastly he appealed to marks which had been cut in the rocks before his time expressly to indicate the former level, and the waters were Observed to have fallen below these marks.
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