The method of carefully extracting soil underneath the Pisa Tower to make it straighter and safer has been shown to be very Successful. The same method was used for a seriously leaning Church tower in the village Nijland in the Friesland province of The Netherlands in 1866(Fig. 1). Here follows a detailed report, Published in 1869. 'On the 23~d of December 1865 the church tower of Nijland (province of Friesland) was investigated, by me, at the invitation of the churchwardens of the Reformed Church at that place, -- the gentlemen A.J. Breeuwsma, F.A. de Boer and H.P. Meile- ma, -- and then I found that that tower deviated in south-west direction of the church; this deviation from the perpendicular at the top stood at about 2·25 el.
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