TIDAL PHENOMENA OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER. 



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XI. Time of Hk;h Water at any Point on River. 



The Ijroken curve connecting times of high water at the 

 iseven points of observation and their distances from Fredericton 

 enables us, given the distance of any point whatever from 

 Indiantown, to find how much later high water occurs at that 

 point than at St. John. We have only to find the point on the 

 curve whose ordinate is the distance from Indiantown, then the 

 abscissa of that point is the time its high water occurs later than 



Table VI, 

 Time of High Water at various points. 



the time of high water at Indiantown. Now a knowledge of 

 the exact time at which high water may be expected at any 

 point is (at least so residents along the river frequently informed 



