Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-11-22

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and other marvels, they are greatly ex.
agserated, writes a correspondent from
Falmouth, N. S. To thoroughly un-
derstasA the phenomenon, the shape OF
Fundy Bay must be considered, and it
will be seen that the great daily tidal
waves that sweep over the Atlantic;
caused by the attrac ton Of the sun and
moon, strike the New England coast
and tend northward until the great body
Of water is squee ezed into the narrow
limits Of the Bay Of Fundy, just as we
see great wave from steamer enter
ing brook from lake. The effect is
to Immediately raise the water level,
and SO in Fundy the wave rushes in and
suddenly compressed with the narrow
bounds, Immediately rises, and the
water forms wave and rushes rapidly
onward, filling up the rivers and bays
along its passage.
A famous place to observe the phe.
nomenon is in what is called NTinas Ba.
sin, a branch of the Bay of Fundy,
that extends into the country ofEvange.
line and cuts it up in curious manner.
Can this be the nverf you ask. 1t
must be, as here are ridges, two Of them
but so woefully long and shaky on their
pins and high above the stream that
they appear like the very ghosts Of
bridges on stills. From above the chasm
appears shelved and cavernous in its
aspect. The sides seem to grade of in
to terraces OF red and gray mud, until
hnally the pan of bottom rock is reach.
ed. along which the pseudo river flows.
Something is expected, as here are ex.
pensive dikes, that are reared to keep
the water from the farms in the back
country; then again, vessels lie at the
docks Of this inland town high and dry
miles and miles from water deep enough
to float them. Do we wait an hour or
SO all this will be changed. We first
notice the silvery thread Of water stop
in its course, then the water is seen to
flow up stream, and, if you turn your
head, for few minutes you find, upon
again looking, that the silvery thread
has grown 10 a stream fifty feet wide.
Twenty minutes later it is a raging
flood, foaming, rushing and boiling,
rising in waves that break against each
other, ever pushing on. as if propelled
by some mysterious force.
In this sudden rash OF the waters an.
imals are often caught; pigs that have
wandered out into the mud are over
come by the onward rollers, and fowl
have been seen surrounded and foaied
away on the waves, to be rescued, per.
haPs, far up the stream, thirty feet high
er than the spot where they were taken
up. Flocks Of birds frequently follow
the tidal wave, or bore, As it is called,
feeding upon the FISH that are cast
ashore, and catching them as the tide
goes out.
Why the wave should be SO high in
coming in is explained in different ways
One theory is that it is formed by a IL
dal current rushing against the current
Of the river, and passing over obstruc.
tions Of more than ordinary height that
tend to push the water up. In the
Hoogly river the wave rises to height
Of twenty feet; in the Amazon thirty,
and in the Tsientage, China, about the
same. The wave in Fundy, however.
is net to be compared to these in any
respect. As to rapidity, the tide comes
in as fast as an ordinary horse can trot,
and a man would have to exert all his
speed to escape.
The height to which the water aetu
ally rises differs in different places, and
depends upon circumstances. Thus, if
the sun and moon could pull together,
so to speak, and a strong wind set in al
the same time, an exceedingly high tide
would be the result. 1t is claimed that
it has risen sixty feet at Moncton; at
Sackville a fifly-foot fall and rise is
common. These are remarkable figures
and the sight of vessels that, say, in
the morning have been alongside the
dock, now forty feet below and no water
in sight, is still more remarkable
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