Partridge Island 
days with tempered emotion, for we could not 
forget the thirty-five-feet pier, which, to our 
ignorance, betokened a thirty-five-feet tide. 
Then we began to consider and also some- 
body told us, and we fell to, and wept in vexa- 
tion that we had looked upon and had not 
been amazed at the wonder we were seeking. 
We did not see the tide rise sixty feet, but 
we did see it reach the creditable height of 
fifty feet or over, a very giant of a tide when 
we understood. The sloping sea bottom, 
which is bare some distance out at low tide, 
is bare for a hundred feet at the lowest tides, 
and at the highest spring-tides the obnoxious 
thirty-five-feet pier is swallowed completely — 
as it deserves to be. 
We were told that the highest of Fundy's 
tides, those that rise seventy feet in the geog- 
raphies and geologies, must be sought in 
Cumberland Basin. But we did not seek 
them there. We had come to Parrsboro for 
them, and, lo ! they were in Cumberland Basin. 
If we pursued them to Cumberland Basin, 
they no doubt would flee away to some yet 
more distant spot, and we did not wish to put 
them to the trouble. 
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