"in the direction bent or seeing the bore coming, The River at this point has a fine stone scale some 12 feet or more in height. from this vantage ground we viewed the Bore. Soon after arriving here at 1:30 P.M., the Bore was sighted approaching as a white breaking wall of water stretching across the river a bay which is here 6 or 8 miles wide. As it came nearer we could see that this wave may only about 3 feet high but look if it was followed by much greater wall of water which made the real Bore. The two waves collided the great one catching up the