200 SIGNS AND SEASONS 



of which it has availed itself, and which it has 

 enlarged. 



In thinking of these things, one only has to allow 

 time enough, and the most stupendous changes in 

 the topography of the country are as easy and natu- 

 ral as the going out or the coming in of spring or 

 summer. According to the authority above referred 

 to, that part of our coast that flanks the mouth of 

 the Hudson is still sinking at the rate of a few 

 inches per century, so that in the twinkling of a 

 hundred thousand years or so the sea will com- 

 pletely submerge the city of New York, the top of 

 Trinity Church steeple alone standing above the 

 flood. We who live so far inland, and sigh for the 

 salt water, need only to have a little patience, and 

 we shall wake up some fine morning and find the 

 surf beating upon our doorsteps. 



