Down North and Up Along 
with dull green. Although Blomidon as seen 
in profile from the Cornwallis Valley appears 
to be a narrow bluff, its real form is apparent 
when one passes along its front, which is not 
narrow but forms a long wall of rock broken 
at intervals. The headland grew more inter- 
esting and more majestic as we went on, so 
that for a time we almost forgot the water 
surging about us. But this was not for long ; 
we were nearing the opening to the great 
trough, where the water rushes through with 
a velocity of six or seven miles an hour. 
This trough is about four miles wide from 
Blomidon to Partridge Island, and is about 
eight miles long, opening at the lower end into 
Minas Channel, which is itself a mighty trough 
leading into the Bay of Fundy. 
The Atlantic tides enter Fundy at its broad 
end, which lies so as to receive them without 
diminution of their force ; but Fundy narrows 
like a funnel, and the pent up waters, continu- 
ing with the impetus with which they entered, 
not able to spread out, pile up. 
At Minas Channel the same thing is repeated 
on a smaller scale. The already abnormally 
high tide, rushing through the channel, finds 
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