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IT is a pleasure to me to see Prof. Darwin's note on curious sounds, in NATURE for October 31, since I have often been puzzled by what is obviously precisely the same phenomenon along the Bay of Fundy coast of New Brunswick, particularly about Passamaquoddy Bay, where I have been a great deal in the summer. Locally it is explained as the reports of the guns of Indians shooting porpoises off the islands of Campobello and Grand Manan; but, for several reasons, I never believed this: in fact, I have always been sure it must be due to some other cause, though I could think of no explanation. It is heard most often in summer, in rather still and warm weather, on those days when the heat-haze hovers upon the ocean, and appears to come from seaward.
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GANONG, W. Remarkable Sounds. Nature 53, 101 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053101e0
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