FUNDY, BAY OF (from Fr. fond de la baie, head of the bay). An arm of the Atlantic, sepa rating Nova Scotia from New Brunswick and the State of Maine (Map: Nova Scotia, D 4). With an average breadth of 35 miles, it extends 180 miles in length from northeast to southwest. It forks, at its head, into two inlets, the northern, called Chig,necto Bay, and the southern, Minas Channel, which are divided by narrow necks of land from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Along its northwest side it receives the Saint John, the principal river of New Brunswick, and the Saint Croix; which, through its entire course, forms the international boundary. The navigation is rendered perilous by the peculiarity of the tides, which have a rise and fall of 53 feet at certain seasons, and produce dangerous bores in the upper reaches. The shores present a very bare appearance at low tide, with long expanses of mud flats and in-reaching estuaries completely drained.
FtNEN, ftenen (Dan. l'yen). The largest
of the Danish islands after Zealand, situated be tween the Great and Little Belts (Map: Denmark, D 3). It is about 50 miles long and over 40 miles in its greatest width, with an area of over 1100 square miles. Its surface is slightly ele vated in the south and west, where it rises to an altitude of over 400 feet. The larger part, how ever, is fiat. The soil is fertile and well watered. Grain is produced and considerable amounts are exported. The raising of domestic animals is also extensively carried on. Administratively the island forms, together with the adjacent islands of Langeland and and a number of smaller islands, the province or stift of FUnen, which is divided into the two bailiwicks of Odense and Svendborg. The principal towns are Odense (q.v.), the capital, Svendborg, and Nyborg, (q.v.). The population of the province in 1890 was 256, 827; in 1901, 279,501.