270 QUESTION OF SUBSIDENCE AT LOUISBOURG, C. B. — McINTOSH. 



that the grassy mounds raised on the shingly inner slope of the 

 beach by the labor of man are today green, but are gradually 

 wearing away as their artificial faithful protector yields to time 

 and the warring elements. 



In view of the considerations above stated it seems plain, 

 to my mind, that the partial submergence of the Beach Battery 

 today does not necessarily constitute an argument in behalf of 

 subsidence. '^^ 



It seems to me not a partizan view of the case to say 

 that the assertion that land on the eastern sea-board of Cape 

 Breton had subsided, could mucli more easily go unchallenged 

 were there no Louisbourg in the case with its ditches, its ruined 

 curtain walls originally placed within easy reach of the ocean 

 spray, and its batteries, as probable reference points to serve as 

 data from which to judge of terrestial stability or change, 



(3) Such a "spur" would, if artificial, naturally subside in time.— Major O. C". 

 Williamson, R. A. 



