Author: BACHE, A.D.
Title: Report on the Battery Extension, and the Abuses Existing in the Harbor of New-York
Description: New York, Pudney & Russell, 1859. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 13pp. Very good. Slight age toning and soiling, mainly to outer wrappers; largely disbound. The noted physicist (1806-67), superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, relays to the president of the New York Chamber of Commerce the results of a study on changes in depth that had taken place off the piers in New York harbor -- decreases caused mainly by city dumping. Not in Sabin. .

Keywords: Americana


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