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...subsidence of the district where they are situated. Dana's observations seemed greatly to strengthen the theory and its very simplicity gained it popularity. The first tangible objection to the theory was found in 1881 when a coral reef twenty-five fathoms deep was discovered off Yucatan, a peninsular which is still rising. My theory is that under the proper favorable conditions coral formation will start wherever a sub-station exists at a suitable depth beneath the surface of the water...
...defences and captured New Madrid, the only considerable town. To pass the river and overpower the batteries which defended the one road to the island, he needed gun-boats and transports. By a wonderful feat of engineering, a canal, six miles long, but shallow, was cut across a submerged peninsular, from loop to loop of the river and the frail transports thus passed around the batteries. A gun-boat, the Carondelet, boldly ran the gauntlet of the fort at night, running so close under the banks that, before the guns could be sufficiently depressed, she was out of range...
...much cannot be said of the "Story of the Peninsular War," which contains a good deal of sensation and sentimentalism in a small space. It is, however, not without merit...
...Palfrey Gaines Mill, and Peninsular Campaign...
Sever 11 was filled to overflowing last evening with the audience assembled to hear Gen. Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service...