The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-04-03
From the Neac York Post
Tidal Phenomena ia Wore
Scotia,

10 some Of these tidal rivers is to be
seen, at the first moment of the return
fow, the strange phenom non called the
"hore," that is the first tide wave,
which rushes in with erea fore and rap
iditv. roaring like surf The yer
nam great b're,' has as,und of terror
in it, especially to the ign rant, who sup
pose, as did one man whom | asked in re-
gard to it, that it is so calleabecauSo it roars
like a wild boar, and sometimes sweeps
away cattle when it overtakes them on the
sands We saw it at Mnnckton, a snail
town 10 the meadows of the Patticodiac
River, which emptieS into the Bay Of
Fundy, eighty miles above ST. Johns
| This river has more funue shaped
mouth than most of the others, aud for
that reason the bore is higher
The landlord Of the Mnpckton Inn
seemed to be accustomed to the arrival of
strangers to SCI the bore, and was evident
ly concerned, as mothers are about child
dren on exhibition, lest it might not, on
this particular day, do its best. He ex-
pl,ined to me as we drove to the wharf,
that it was just now ga low run of tides"
that "to.dny the wind would be dead
ahead. aud that knocked it down consid.
cradle, and that II ought to be there in
the time Vt the spring tides when it wax
ed people up nights " All my anticipa-
tionS we're vague had seen other tide
rivers in Nova Scotia empty and Gil, fill
aud empty, day after day, their thirty aud
forty five feet If water, but it came in and
wen, out like other tides, and made no
mise abou, its gigantic work what this
one sudden, roaring wave could be, I had
no conception. | confess that | held my
breath for the first few minutes after we
reached the wharf
There lay the river bed, half a mile
broad, curving just below Us, away from
the town toward the sea ; i was one
smoothed alley If red mud, with mar
row current of water not more thar TWEEN
ty feet wide running out the brief
chance of the fresh water S ream to make
its way down to the bay. On the town
side were wharves with muddy beaches
between on the opposite the Parish of
Coverdale, with its green meadows run
ming down til they met the muddy slopes
of the river channel. Beyond the bend
we could trace the brown band of the riv-
err bed for miles. Down this line we
strained our eyes. =.
"Shall we hear it before We see it ?"
said |.
Not to day, because the wind is
ahead"
The mystery of mysteries !! Here was
navigation with witnoss a wave riding
on a wave against a current, in teeth of
the wind, faster than horse can trot. |
held my breath again The flies buzzed
about the wharf some little boys teeter
Ell idly on pile of boards the landlord
looked at his watch the horse settle !
down little Oh his nigh hind leg, after
the fashion Of INTEL gent horses when
they comprehend that they are to have a
long standing. Three quar- .crs of an hour
passed in almost utter silence, for | waS
rfrsii # los NJ tive first 81 ht aud sjana
OF the water, AID did not encourage Inc
nilord's stories Of traditions of high
tides which lad swept up Into the town,
of boats which had been hit by the bore
aud ca psized, and Of the grand sight in the
breaking up of tue river in the spring,
when the great masses of ice are knocked
an ground together IN the bore Sitn a
noise like guns.
"Ah ! there are the gulls," he exclaim-
ed "it will soon be here"
why, what can gulIs have to do with
it p
''Oh, the little fishes get caught up and
rolled over and over in the wave, aud the
gulls, they fly along just above it, and
pick the fishes right out of - there it
is !" he cried. Yes, there it was, three
miles off, a low, white liue, coming to-
wards us steadily, and apparently faster