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1778- and water, was a great deal of drift-wood thrown afliore; 



April. 



a part of which we had to remove, to come at the water. It 

 often happened, that large pieces or trees, which we had re- 

 moved in the day, out of the reach of the then high-water, 

 weiic found, the next morning, floated again in our way ;. 

 and all our fpouts, for conveying down the water, thrown 

 out of their places, which were immoveable during the 

 day tides. .We alfo found, that wood, which we had fplit 

 up for fuel, and had depofited beyond the reach of the day 

 tide, floated away during the night. Some of thefe circura- 

 . fiances happened every night or morning, for three or four 

 days in the height of the fpring-tides -, during which time 

 we. were obliged to attend every morning tide, to remove 

 the large logs out of the way of watering. 



I cannot fav, whether the flood-tide falls into the Sound 

 from the North Weft, South Weft, or South Eaft. I think it 

 does not come from the laft quarter ; but this is only con- 

 jecfture, founded upon the following obfervations : The South 

 Eaft gales, which we had in the Sound, were fo far from in- 

 creafing the rife of the tide, that they rather diminifhcd it; 

 which would hardly have happened, if the flood and wind 

 had been in the fame diredion. 



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