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... shifting its coils some two or three thousand feet each year . The struggle , the action and the re- action of the ocean and the river are titanic , because the old Pacific , at this point , is a drastic war lord .
... shifting its coils some two or three thousand feet each year . The struggle , the action and the re- action of the ocean and the river are titanic , because the old Pacific , at this point , is a drastic war lord .
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In jumping from a mov- ing rock train , Rhode went over the platform at the receiving end of the jetty railway and fell to the rocks twenty feet below . Bruised , he attempted to hold until a rescue crew could reach him .
In jumping from a mov- ing rock train , Rhode went over the platform at the receiving end of the jetty railway and fell to the rocks twenty feet below . Bruised , he attempted to hold until a rescue crew could reach him .
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The first surveys showed a low - water chan- nel depth of twenty - seven feet . But the sand continued to come , and to shift . The twenty - seven feet at low water in 1852 became twenty - five feet by 1868. complete .
The first surveys showed a low - water chan- nel depth of twenty - seven feet . But the sand continued to come , and to shift . The twenty - seven feet at low water in 1852 became twenty - five feet by 1868. complete .
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water in 1852 became twenty - five feet by 1868 - and only nineteen feet by 1882. The underground clamor and concern became so great that Congress could not refuse to hear , even though those were the golden days of the giant westward ...
water in 1852 became twenty - five feet by 1868 - and only nineteen feet by 1882. The underground clamor and concern became so great that Congress could not refuse to hear , even though those were the golden days of the giant westward ...
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By 1899 , four years after the completion of the initial jetty , the low - water depth had decreased three feet , to twenty - eight feet . The warfare was on again . Again Congress was laggard .
By 1899 , four years after the completion of the initial jetty , the low - water depth had decreased three feet , to twenty - eight feet . The warfare was on again . Again Congress was laggard .
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