OF THE BASIN OF MINAS. 171 
Below Windsor, one looks down the river some dis- 
tance, and then the view is shut off by an eastward bend. 
By and by we see something white making its appear- 
ance at this point. It is advancing up the stream, and 
there is a gleam of water behind it. Some one who has 
also been on the lookout exclaims, “Here comes the 
tide!” We see it coming steadily up the channels, with 
a line of foam* along its front. It rushes swiftly by us, 
passes under the long bridge that spans the Avon just 
above the town, and is out of sight. Meanwhile the 
Whole bottom of the depression is flooded, and the water 
is pouring in like a river. It creeps visibly up the edges 
of the mud banks, gains the bases of the piers, and sweeps 
out higher and yet higher the sun-dried, muddy fronds of 
the coarse, knotty-leaved fuci, that hang heavily from the 
pier. As we watch the flood eddying and rippling along 
the sides of the wharves, gaining steadily and visibly 
in height every moment, we can scarcely repress the 
question, Where will it stop? But a little while ago we 
looked down the river and saw it as a great empty mud 
tch. Now it is a broad expanse of water, that would 
be beautiful, were it not that its waves are excessively 
turbid, and of a coffee, or rather chocolate, color, contrast- 
ing Strangely with the green meadows and cultivated hill- 
Sides that border it. There is a little fleet of vessels too, 
that is being borne in on the current, and presently some 
one cries out, “Here she comes!” There is a long black 
line oe smoke issuing from beyond the elms on the point, 
and in a moment the little bay steamer makes her ap- 
pearance, and is soon blowing off steam alongside of the 
pier. Meanwhile the tide has risen so as nearly to fill 
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fa “bore,” or hi i iolently up channel in 
its narrow ra e,” or high wave, that sweeps vio: y up the 
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