340 DEATH OF FISHES IN THE BAY OF FUNDY. 

and, when on his way to the scene of the disaster, was made 
uncomfortably aware of the proximity even at the distance 
of two miles, by an intolerable stench from decomposing 
fish, contaminating the atmosphere in every direction for five 
miles around Anderson’s Cove. The smell was found to — 
emanate not only from the latter, but also from the fields 
around, where many cart-loads had been deposited by the 
farmers; nevertheless, the quantities of rotting fish around 
the margin of the lagoon seemed very little diminished by 
the amount taken away for manure, not to mention what 
been consumed by the flocks of gulls and crows which were 
feeding sumptuously on their remains. 
After skirting the shore of Anderson’s Cove we reached — 
the entrance of the narrow, tortuous passage leading to the 
lagoon ; here the first traces of the disaster were manifested 
by enormous quantities of fishes, impacted between and 
among the fallen masses of rock, which were literally be- 
smeared all over with the crushed flesh and bones of herring 
whilst the sides and bottom of the lagoon were covered with 
their entire and mangled remains, forming heaps several feet 
in depth, more especially in places where there had evidently 
been eddies, whilst the limits of the tide were distinctly 
marked by a pile of their bodies which fringed the basın : 
the lagoon. On the muddy bottom they lay as thick as her 
rings in a barrel, interspersed with remains of crabs, lobsters» 
sea-mussels, and other shells, together with enormous nul: 
bers of the dead bodies of star-fish, etc. od that 
A friend, who resides in the neighborhood, suggeste ee 
the shoal had been chased into the inclosure by ape 
other predaceous fishes, and were subsequently suffocate 
ains 
the muddy waters of the lagoon. But the mangke e 
in the passage and shallow water in Anderson S$ me 
gether with the fury of the gale, rather seemed si 
that the vast assemblage, getting into shallow W3 w 
under the influence of the breakers, was driven pin 
passage and against its rocky sides into the Jagoon, , 
cate 
