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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
XIY. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
High Tide on the East Coast. — On the 16th of May, 1895, 
a very high tide occurred on this coast, and the sea-water came up 
the rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk to such an extent that thousands 
of fish were killed. The river Tlnirne, from Potter Heigham to 
Kendle Dyke and Heigham Sounds, contained countless numbers of 
dead fish. Pike, some of considerable weight, Bream, Bream-fiats, 
also Roach, Perch, Tench, and Gudgeon, and numerous fresh-water 
Mussels were seen floating on the surface, victims to the salt-tide. 
At Potter Heigham, several barrel-loads of fish were taken out 
of the river a day or two after the high tide, and used as food for 
the pigs. G. Applegate, Jun., a Potter Heigham boatman, states 
that he remembers several cases of high tide, but not one so 
disastrous to fish-life as that of the 16th May, 1895. At Oulton 
Broad the water rose above the Staithe, and I am informed that 
fish were destroyed in the New Cut, and as high up the Y are 
as Coldham Hall ; the vegetation on the banks also being affected 
by the sea-water. Captain Day, Pier Master at Gorleston, in 
a letter to Mr. F. Danby Palmer, states as follows: — “That the 
high tide of the 16th of May last was quite an exceptional tide for 
the season. The early morning’s tide, on the day named, registered 
7 feet 3 inches above zero, or local datum, or say about 15 inches 
higher than an ordinary high-water spring-tide. This, however, of 
itself was not at all an excessive flow. But what may in a great measure 
account for the prolonged presence of salt-water in the upper rivers, 
and which as you state, destroyed so many fish, was that the low 
water following this 7 feet 3 inches tide, only ebbed down one foot ; 
there being therefore at low water 6 feet 3 inches above zero, or, in 
other words, to an ordinary high-water spring-tide. This great volume 
of water having been pent up by a strong northerly gale during 
the whole of the ebb, and further backed up by the ensuing flood 
in the afternoon which rose to 8 feet 10 inches above zero, thereby 
further assisting the salt water to force its way still higher up the 
