4 Report of the U. &. Coast Survey for 1883. 
moved nearer, of necessity. An old yacht, said to have been. 
wrecked twenty-five years ago, is now lying not less than 50 
feet inland and 8 or 4 feet above mean tide. 
While no attempt is here made to measure the rate of eleva- 
tion, there is no doubt but that the fact of such an elevation 
can be established. The New Jersey coast and the shore of 
the southern Atlantic States show evidence of a slow subsi- 
dence; but these coast regions have not been covered by the 
sea since the later Tertiary, while the Delaware peninsula, 
totally submerged only as far back as the Post-Glacial, has not 
finished the slow operation of emergence from the sea. 
Art. Xi— Report of the Superintendent of the United States 
Coast and Geodetic Survey showing the progress of the work 
during the fiscal year ending with June, 1883.* 
On December 1, 1833, Mr. F. R. Hassler, Superintendent of — 
the Coast Survey, presented to the Secretary of the Treasury 
a létter reporting the progress made in the work of the survey — 
-of the coast. - 
Excepting a report (of 3 octavo pages) to the Secretary of the 
Treasury in November, 1817, also by Mr. Hassler, this was the 
first Coast Survey report, and for about ten years it was fol- 
lowed by similar reports consisting of a few octavo pages. 
1844, under the superintendence of Prof. A. D. Bache, these 
annual reports to Congress, which appeared as executive doc- 
uments, began to grow, and in 1851 had attained to a size of 
559 octavo pages. Beginning with 1852, however, the form 
was changed ; the octavo form was abandoned, and in its stead 
came the quarto, so much better adapted to the presentation of 
maps and illustrations, 
The report’ for 1852 may therefore be regarded as the 
beginning of a series of which the volume before us is the 
thirty-second. Ets 
The publication of these annual reports of progress has con- 
tinued, sometimes with delay but without interruption, and 
the prompt issue of the present volume indicates that the delay 
an the publication of the later volumes is practically overcome. 
* xxvi and 448 pp, 4to, with 50 maps, sketches aud illustrations. Washington, 
4884. Government Printing Office. 
