NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
132. — The Remarkable Twelve-Hour Tides of Buctouche. 
Read in Abstract June 10, 1911 
Several years ago I found on an old plan of Buctouche, 
made by the surveyor Watson and preserved in the Crown 
Land Office at Fredericton, the following Note: 
“The Tides are intirely governed by the Winds when it 
“sets into the Harbor and blows fresh it does not ebb, on 
“the contrary when it blows fresh out of the Harbor it 
“does not rise: in Calm weather it rises & falls once in about 
24 Hours.” 
The latter statement, that in calm weather the tide rises 
and falls only once in twenty-four hours, I have long desired 
to investigate, but so many are the interesting things to be 
done in New Brunswick that it was not until July, 1912, 
that I was able to visit Buctouche for the express purpose 
of observing the tidal phenomena. I went there with the 
intention of making, by aid of an unsuspecting brother who 
was my companion, a continuous record of the tidal movement 
right through two complete cycles, that is night and day 
through forty-eight hours. I soon discovered, however, that 
such a study required appliances and conditions which 1 
could not then command, and I was obliged to defer the 
measurements until another occasion. Nevertheless, my visit 
w r as by no means barren, for I had the following experience. 
On July 28, 1912, we were camped about a mile above 
Buctouche en route to the head of tide at Coates Mill, some 
ten miles above on the River. We observed a high tide in the 
early morning, about six o’clock, and, having plenty of time, 
we decided not to face the ebb current, but to wait for the 
flood which would ordinarily have been due to start about 
twelve o’clock. We waited, however, until after three, and 
then, as the tide was still ebbing, we set out, made our way 
by pole and paddle up to Coates Mill, and camped at 
tide head close beside the river bank. The tide did not 
rise at all that evening, but when we stepped from the tent 
