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bridge at Baring. More than one hundred buildings in St. Stephen were 
ruined, and in our cemetery more than one thousand trees were uprooted 
and broken. At Eastport about forty buildings were destroyed or unroofed, 
several lives lost, and most all the fishing crafts were wrecked. At Eastport 
and St. Andrews and about the islands the tide was very high and damaged 
the wharves much. Sixty-seven vessels were ashore The blow 
did not last but about an hour and was heaviest at eight o’clock in the 
evening. There was very little wind at Bangor and not much at St. John. 
{The Naturalist of the Saint Croix, 57.) 
And in a letter to Professor Baird written October 29 of the 
same year he gives this additional information: — 
The great loss to this country from the Saxby gale will be to the woods. 
We have had some of our men up exploring and they say they can walk 
ten miles at a time on the trees that are down without stepping on the 
g ound. In some places for half a mile about every tree is down. 
The wind did not reach very far up the river, only about thirty or forty 
miles — it was the heaviest about the shores. 
The accounts in the contemporary New Brunswick news- 
papers must also give reports of the greatest interest and value, 
and I am pleased to learn that these are being collected by 
our meteorological colleague, Mr. D. L. Hutchinson, and are 
to be published soon in a meteorological journal. 
The damage done by the gale included not only great devas- 
tation in the forests, and a considerable destruction of build- 
ings, but many wrecks in the Bay of Fundy, involving some 
loss of life. Happening to conjoin with a time of high tides, 
its course up the Bay of Fundy drove the tide to an unprece- 
dented height, and thus caused the submergence of wharves 
and overflow of the dyked lands, with great destruction of 
dykes, cultivated marsh, and cattle. Thus the newspaper 
accounts above-mentioned referring to Wolfville, N. S., say: 
“Highest tide ever known, a large number of horses 
and sheep destroyed;’’ at Windsor “streets were flooded and 
the Green dyke was covered with mud;’’ in the same vicinity 
“the damage done to the dykes would amount to S(),00(). The 
tide rose from 12 inches to 18 inches higher than ever known 
before. The Grand Pre and Wickwire dykes in Horton were 
completely submerged.’’ The residents of the country of 
