PRESIDENT BELL ON JAPAN 509 



dria.* Mean spring range at Alexandria is but 3 feet. So a 

 " storm rise " of four feet on the open coast was 8 feet at Hell 

 Gate.t During the gauging of East river " a moderate northeast 

 wind " heaped up the western end of Long Island sound nearly 

 a half foot above the harbor on one occasion. It is just as easy 

 for "weather" to add 20 feet to the tidal rise in the Basin of 

 Minas as 5 feet at Lynn, Mass. (Jan. 23, 1898), where spring 

 range is but 11 feet. 



A bore apparently exists in both Chignecto bay and the Minas 

 basin, where it has been described as coming in in two lines. To 

 judge from photographs, the bore is.but a few feet high. Details 

 about it are not given. 



A well-established feature of these tides is the extraordinary 

 amounts of sediment deposited at the estuary heads. In a hol- 

 low iron cylinder at Windsor, Murphy + measured 30 inches of 

 fine sand and mud deposited from, the tides in 122 days, being- 

 uncovered at low water. W. L. Goodwin §• states that thousands 

 of acres of bogland have thus been built up by the tide in West- 

 moreland county, N. B. A lake 15 feet deep in 1867 was kept 

 in communication with the bay by a canal that the tides might 

 have free access. In 1892 it was quite filled and yielding haj\ 

 In Sackville county 3,000 acres have been reclaimed. Mr Good- 

 win seems to refer the origin of the mud in the water to the 

 wearing of the rushing tides on the soft shales. Dr R. T. Jack- 

 son states that this is very marked at Joggins, N. S. 



The steepening of the wave-front is inconsiderable and an ad- 

 vance of high water as a progressive wave hardly exists where 

 our observations are distributed. 



PRESIDENT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ON JAPAN 



The President of the National Geographic Society, Dr Alex- 

 ander Graham Bell, is now in Japan, where he has been received 

 with distinguished honors. On October 22 he was presented to 

 the Emperor in special audience, and on October 29 to the Em- 

 press by special command. On November 6 he was entertained 

 at dinner at the Imperial hotel, Tokyo, by the International 

 Journalists' Association, as a tribute equally to his illustrious 



*U. S. Coast Sui-v. Ann. Rep., 1878, p. 24. 

 fU. S. Coast Surv. Ann. Rep., 1886, p. 431. 

 X Nova Seotian Institute, vol. vii, p. 51. 

 gCan. Record of Science, 18!)7, p. 364. 



