Tides
The strait is famous for its fierce tides that can range from 30 to 60 ft (9.1 to 18 m), which discouraged many earlier explorers.
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Famous quotes containing the word tides:
“I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever,
Upon the billows of my bood have ridden,
Where fish of fancy teem as neither river
Nor ocean spawns from India to Sweden.”
—Vassar Miller (b. 1924)
“One turned, as one does, to other interests
Such as the tides in the Bay of Fundy.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow,
She draws her favours to the lowest ebb;
Her tides have equal times to come and go,
Her loom doth weave the fine and Coarsest web;”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)