TIDAL PHENOMENA OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER. 



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straight line. The deptli of the river decreases too gently and 

 uniformly to show these more marked features often shown ia 

 tidal rivers. 



YIIT. Form of Tide Wave at 8t. John. 



While the change of form referred to in the preceding is a 

 well known feature in rivers, I do not know that attention has 

 ever been called to the fact that the same thing may happen even 

 in large bays like the Bay of Fund3\ It occurred to me to ex- 

 amine carefully the tide record at 8t. John to see if low water 



Table III. 



Dclaii uf Loir J]\tter (if St Juhn. 



Time from ' Time from 

 H.W.toL.W. L.W.toH.W. 



Delay of 

 L. W. 



hrs. min. ] hrs. min 



6 — 10 G — 5 



6 — 30 6 — 2 



6 — 11 6 — 12 



6 — 22 6 — 3 



6 — 30 6 — 



6_15 6 — 



5_16 6 — 6 



6 — 18 6 — 2 



6 _ 23 6 — 5 



6 — 23 6 — 



6 — 22 6 — 5 



6 — 30 5 — 58 



6_30 G — 10 



6 _ 25 6 — 2 



6 — 28 ! 6—17 



6 — 18 I 6 — 10 



6 — 20 G — 2 



6 — 13 i 6 — 5 



.0 



14.0 



-0.5 



9.5 



15.0 



7.5 



5.0 



8.0 



9.0 



11.5 



8.5 



16.0 



10.0 



11.5 



5.5 



4.0 



9.0 



4.0 



Mean delay, 8 min. 



falls exactly midway between two high waters. Table III gives 

 the time from hioh water to low water and from low water to- 



