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Bay of Fundy

noun

A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet.

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... sent Captain Alden, who had already taken possession of Saint-Castin's post at Penobscot, to seize upon La Heve, Chedabucto, and other stations on the southern coast. Then, after providing for the reduction of the settlements at the head of the Bay of Fundy, he sailed, with the rest of the fleet, for Boston, where he arrived triumphant on the thirtieth of May, bringing with him, as prisoners, the French governor, fifty-nine soldiers, and the two priests, Petit and Trouve. Massachusetts had made an easy conquest of all ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... out of the thick forest into a great open portion of the country. This was marshland, and it spread out before them miles in extent. To the right were rugged wooded hills, while far away to the left the cold steel glitter of the Bay of Fundy ...

— The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists • H. A. Cody

... the gulf of St. Lawrence. In consequence of these grants, a settlement was formed in the subsequent year, on that coast, near the river St. Croix; and in 1605, Port Royal was built on a more northern part of the bay of Fundy. ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

Words linked to "Bay of Fundy" : Atlantic Ocean, embayment, Atlantic, bay