Identifier: elementaryphysic00tarr (find matches)
Title: Elementary physical geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r estuaries. Thus as the wave passes up theBay of Fundy, friction with the shore causes it to be re-tarded, while in the central part of the bay the wave advance?more rapidly. Nowhere can this effect of the land be better illustratedthan in the vicinity of the British Isles (Plate 19). Thewave passes up the Atlantic, and without serious inter-ference moves to the northern extremity of Ireland and Scot-land, while the same wave has advanced to the southerncoast of England, and begun to pass into the English Chan-nel. The shallowness of the water in this region preventsthe rapid movement of the wave ; and by the time it haspassed through the English Channel, the part that went out-side of the British Isles has gone entirely around the islands,and entered the North Sea, where the two parts of the samewave meet (Plate 19). On the American coast a similar influence of the land isnoticed in the approaches to New York Harbor. The tida)wave passes readily up the bay toward New York, while the
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