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in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] an direction bent on seeing the bore come in.  The River at this point has a fine stone sea wall 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 striding across the river or bay which is here.  6 or 8 miles wide.  As it came nearer we could see that this wave way only about 3 feet high but back of it was falling a much greater wall of water which was the real bore.  The two waves collided the great one catching up the

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