Chignecto Bay

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 175–176

A botanical illustration of Chicory (Cichorium Intybus). It shows a central plant with a long, carrot-like root, several leaves, and a flowering stem. Two separate parts are labeled: 'a' points to a single flower, and 'b' points to a separate floret. — Chicory (Cichorium Intybus):
a, single flower; b, a separate floret.

Chignecto Bay, an inlet at the head of the Bay of Fundy, in British North America. It separates Nova Scotia from New Brunswick, is 30 miles long and 8 broad, and has an isthmus of only 14 miles wide, with a ship-railway (1889-96) between it and the Gulf of St Lawrence.

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