Fundy

Fundy, BAY OF, an arm of the Atlantic, separating Nova Scotia from New Brunswick, and branching at its head into two inlets, Chignecto Bay and Minas Basin, which are separated by narrow necks of land from the Gulf of St Lawrence. It has an extreme breadth of 45 miles and a length up to Chignecto Bay of 140 miles; it receives the St John, the principal river of New Brunswick, and the St Croix, which separates that province from Maine. The navigation is rendered perilous by the tides, which rush in with impetuous force, and have a range of 53 feet (not 100 feet), as at Chepstow.