The luatroduéhion. 
The Tides here are {carce to be taken notice of, there being very 
little increafe or decreafe of the water, and that depending moftly, 
if not altogether, on the Winds, fo that che Land-Winds driving off 
the water of the Ifland, makesa Foot, two, or more Ebb, which is 
moft apparent in the mornings: ia the Harbour of Port-Royal one may 
fee the Coral-Recks then fenfibly nearer the furface of the water, 
and all along the Sea-fhore, the water is gone fora {mall {pace, leaving 
it dry, and this much more on the South fide of the Hland, when the 
Norths blow. On the contrary the Sea-breeze driving the water 
on the fhore of the Ifland, makes the Flood, fo that in the evening 
ic may be faid to be high water, efpecially if a Souch, or other 
Wind, blows violently into the Land for fome time together, with 
which the water comes in, and is much higher chan ordinary. The 
Breezes being ftronger or weaker according to the Moons Age, ic 
may be thought the Tides or Currents may follow that; but I ra- 
ther believe they only are the effect of the Winds. 
‘The outward face of the Earth feems to be different here from 
what I con’d obferve in Europe, the Valiies in this Mland being very 
level, with little or no rifing Ground, or fmall Hills, and without * 
Rocks, or Stones. The Mountainous part for the moft part is very 
fteep, and furrowed by very deep Gullies on the North and South fides 
of the higheft Hills, on each fide of which are very great Precipices. 
The Ridges left are where the High-ways are made, to pafs from one 
fide of the Ifland to the other. “The Gullies are made here by 
frequent, and often very violent Rains, which every day almoft 
fall on thefe Mountains, and firft making a {mall Trough or Courle 
for themfelves, wafh away afterwards whatever comes in their way 
and make their Channel extraordinary fteep. 
The greateft part of the high Land of this Iflind is ftony, rocky, 
or clayey; thele forts of Soil refift the Rains, and fo are not 
carried down violently with them into the Plains, as are the 
Mould proper for Tillage, and other more friable Earths, either 
natural to thefe places, or made of the faln and rotten Leaves, and 
Trunks of Trees, or Duft carried by Wind and Rain; hence it is 
that in thofe mountainous places, one fhall have very lice or 
none of fuch Earths, but either a tenacious Clay, or a Honeys 
Comb, or other Rock, on which no Earth appears; and this is 
generally true, unlefs in fome few places where the Rain may 
carry fome of this Earth, and there leave it, the fituation of the 
a being the caufe of fuch an accident, by being a bottom among 
Hills, 
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