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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 504

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hrough thisbreak rush the famous tides of Fundy, and fillup an inland basin of salt water twenty mileslong and several in width. The entrance, fromthe outside, is mysteriously invisible to thelandsmans eye. To a passenger crossing the GEOGRAPHICAL BOTTLES. 989 Bay of Fundy from St. John it seems as… … THE HARBOR OF HAVANA. the distance. One can imagine the tremendoustide race through this Digby Strait when weknow that the ordinary tidal rise in this regionis anywhere from forty to seventy feet. It isso great, in fact, that the wharves at Digby aretwo-storied affairs; and people go aboardsteamers…

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