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Figure 23. — Tide curves, Miami Beach, Cedar Keys, and Pensaeola, June 23-30, 1948. 



Pensacola is about 250 miles from Cedar Keys, 

 and in this distance along the Gulf coast the tides 

 differ strikingly. If we go up the Atlantic coast 

 the same distance from Miami Beach, we find no 

 such differences. In fact, in the 1 , 500-mile stretch 

 from Florida to Maine, the characteristics of the 

 tide along the Atlantic coast are much the same 

 despite large differences in range of tide at differ- 

 ent places. For example, at Bar Harbor, Maine, 



the mean range of the tide is 10.4 feet against 2.5 

 feet at Miami Beach. If we plot the tide curve 

 at Bar Harbor for the last 8 days of June 1948 on 

 a height scale one-fourth that at Miami Beach, the 

 two tide curves would resemble each other closely. 

 To exemplify the character of the tide at other 

 places in the Gulf of Mexico, we may take Key 

 West, Florida, at the entrance to the Gulf, and 

 Galveston, Texas, about 450 miles west of Pensa- 



