. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . luctuation of about 4 or 5 ft. Theimpetuous rush of water, as it sweepsup the Bay of Chignecto, enters themouth of the shallow Petitcodiac riverand gives rise to a tidal wave whichfollows the windings of that streamand passes up to and beyond Monc-ton, where the principal shops of theIntercolonial Railway are tidal wave is called Eager, butmore generally the Bore. Some au-thorities believe the latter word to bederived from the Icelandic Bara, abillow raised by the wind. The pas-
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . luctuation of about 4 or 5 ft. Theimpetuous rush of water, as it sweepsup the Bay of Chignecto, enters themouth of the shallow Petitcodiac riverand gives rise to a tidal wave whichfollows the windings of that streamand passes up to and beyond Monc-ton, where the principal shops of theIntercolonial Railway are tidal wave is called Eager, butmore generally the Bore. Some au-thorities believe the latter word to bederived from the Icelandic Bara, abillow raised by the wind. The pas-sage of the bore up the river followssome hours after the high tide has en-gulfed the falls of St. John and heapedup the waters in Chignecto Bay, butthe time has been accurately calcu-lated and notices are daily posted inthe hotels at Moncton, giving the hourand minute of its arrival, for the bene-fit of travelers and sight-seers who de-sire to look at the wall of water, per-haps a foot in depth, as it rushes upagainst the river current and all at oncealters the level and the direction of THE BORE OX THE PETITCODIAC RIVER AT MONCTON, N. B. in the mellow glow of morning gave The engulphing of the falls at the that indefinable sense of depth, as of mouth of the St. John river close by distance made clear without the glare the city of that name is a unique sight, of strong light, and without the hazy St. John is almost at the entrance of blur that comes when the dew is gone, the Bay of Fundy, and is about 90 Moncton, headquarters station for miles from Moncton, on one of the the road, is on the Petitcodiac river, four railway arms which stretch out One of our illustrations shows the from that point. The falls at the July, 1908. R VILWAV AND LOCOMOTn I 279 mouth of the St. John river, arc about17 or 20 ft. high, and the average highwater tide rises 6 or 8 ft. above thegeneral level of the water in the nat-ural gorge above the fall. Thus it isthat twice in the twenty-four
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