Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1906 — Hudson Bay Tipping Over. [ARTICLE]

Hudson Bay Tipping Over.

A curious result of the slow changes of level goiug on at various points of the earth’s surface has recently been pointed out by an official of the geological survey. This is a gradual tipping up of the shores of Hudson Bay, as if some gigantic power were engaged in an attempt to empty that great basin of water into the adjoining sea. One of the earliest indications of what was .going on came to the attention of the officers of a commercial company operating in that region, when they found that the water at the mouths of the rivers where their posts are stationed was gradually growing shallower aud navigation, consequently becoming more difficult. Examination shows that the shore is lined with old beaches of sand and gravel lying as high as fifty feet or lift)re above the present level of the bay. When Hendrik Hudson, in IGIO, discovered the great body of water that bears his name he wintered with his ships on the east coast of the bay, in a harbor which lias now disappeared, or, at least, as been so far drained off as no longer to be recognizable from his description.