XXXVlll ADVERTISEMENT. 



In the road of the ifland of Maflafuero, in 33 

 degrees, 46 minutes of South Latitude, and 80 de- 

 grees, 22 minutes,- Weft Longitude, from the Me- 

 ridian of London " The fea runs twelve 



" hours to the North, and then flows back twelve 

 " hours to the South." (Captain Byron, April, 

 1765-) 



As the iiland of Maflafuero is in the fouthern 

 part of the South Sea, it's tides, which fet in to the 

 North in April, run, therefore, toward the Line* 

 in contradidion to the lunar fyftem : befides, it*s 

 tides are of twelve hours duration ; another diffi- 

 culty. 



At Englifh Creek, on the coaft of New Britain, 

 about the 5th degree of South Latitude, and 152 

 degrees of Longitude, " The tide has a flux and 

 *' reflux once in twenty four hours." (Captain 

 Carteret, Auguft, 1767,) 



At the Bay of the Ifles, in New Zealand, toward 

 34 degrees, 59 minutes of South Latitude, and 185 

 degrees, 36 minutes. Weft Longitude: *' From the 

 " obfervations which I have been able to make 

 *' on the coaft, relatively to the tides, it appears, 

 ^' that the flood fets in from the South." (Captain 

 Çoi?/^, December, 1769.) 



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