The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-26
HIGH TIDES.


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Usually PUSHES People.
Boston Herald
The tides Of Funday sfs perhaps, familiar to
almost every one and, though they are re-
iaarkabie, like tho maelstrom and other mar
wells, they are greatly exaggerated, writes a
correspondent from Falmouth, N s. To thor
oughly understand the phenomenon tho shape
OF The Funday bay must b. considered, and it
will be seen that the grest daily tidal waves
that sweep oyer the Atlantic CAUSED by the at
traction Of the sun and moon, strike the New
England coast and tend northward until the
great body OF water 10 squeezed into the mar
row limits Of the bay Of Funday, just rs we
see Q great wave from steamer entering
brook from lake. The effect is to immediate
ly raise the water level, and so in Funday, the
tidal wave PUSHES in, and, suddenly COM
pressed with the narrow bounds, immediately
rises, and the water forms . wave and rushes
rapidly onward, filling tip the rivers and bays
A famous place to observe this phenomenon il
in what is called tho Minas basin, branch of tho
bay of Funday, that extends into the country Of
Eyangeline and cuts it up in curious manner.
Can this be the river! you ask. 1t must be,
As here are bridges, two of them, but 80 woe
fully long and shaEy on their pins and high
very ghosts Of bridges on stills. From above
the s Snss Rs sdss rsds o into
terraces of red and gray mud, Until finally the
pan Of bottom rock is reached, along which
the pseudo river flows. Something is expected,
rs here are expensive dykes, that are reared
10 keep tho 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 80 all this will be changed.
We first notice this silvery thread of water
stop in its course, then the water is seen to
Cow up stream, and If you turn your head for
few minutes you find upon again looking that
the silvery thread has grown to a stream fifty
feet wide. Twenty minutes later it is raging
flood, foaming, rushing, and boiling, rising IN
waves that break against each other, ever
pushing on, as if propelled by some mystic
rious force.
In this sudden rush Of tho waters, animals
are often caught, pigs that have wandered
out into the mud are overcome by the onward
rollers, and fowl have been seen surrounded
and Hoated away on the waves, to be rescued,
perhaps, far up the stream, thirty feet higher
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 End 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 tidal current rushing
against the current of the river, and passing
over Instructions of more than ordinary height
that tend to push the water up. In the Hoogly
river tho wave rises to height of twenty feet;
in the Amazon thirty, and in the Taientage,
China. about the same. The wave in Funday,
however, is not to be compared to these in any
respect As to rapidity, the tide comes in
about as fast rs an ordinary horse can trot, and
man would have to exert all his speed to es-
cape. ,,
differs in different places and depends upon
could pull together, so to speak, and strong
wind set in at the same time, an exceedingly
high tide would be the result 1t Is claimed
that it has risen sixty feet at Moncton; at Sack
vile fifty foot fall and rise is common. These
re 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.