The Harbor of New-York ...Press of the Chamber of commerce, 1887 - 17 pages |
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27 feet Arthur Kill bar fronting Bay waters run Chamber of Commerce channel should exist Commerce of New-York Committee on Harbor Coney Island Channel Congress conservatism consideration considered contraction currents deep water dredging Dry Romer Shoal East ebb tide exact movements existing channels feet at mean feet depth FLYNN'S Knoll forces FOSTER HIGGINS four miles GEDNEY'S Channel Harbor and Shipping Harbor Improvements harbor waters harbor's entrance head of Sandy Hook and Coney inner bar inner harbor Lieutenant-Colonel GILLESPIE Main Ship Channel maps mean low tide Narrows nature navigation necessary NEW-YORK HARBOR NEWARK BAY outer bay outer harbor outward scour present appropriation Raritan Bay Raritan River recommended rising to half Sandy Hook Bay Secretary Secretary of War self-maintaining side of GEDNEY'S south-southeast from Coney stone dike Swash Channel thirty feet Thirty Foot Channel tidal tion twenty-three and one-half UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vastly increased risks velocity west of FLYNN's