ADVERTISEMENT. XXX'IX 



Here are ftill tides in the open Seas which run 

 toward tlie Line, againfl the impullion of the 

 Moon. They defcended, at that feafon, to New 

 Zealand, from the South Pole, the Currents of 

 which were then in a ftatc of aélivity, for it was 

 the fummer of that Pole, being t^e month of De- 

 cember. Thofe of Maffafuero, though obferved 

 in the month of April, by Captain Byron, had 

 likewife the fame origin, becaufe the Currents of 

 the North Pole, which do not commence till to- 

 ward the end of March, at the time of our vernal 

 Equinox, had not as yet begun to check the in- 

 fluence of the South Pole, in the Southern He» 

 mifphere. 



At the mouth of River Endeavour, in New Hoi- 

 land, 15 degrees, 26 minutes of South Latitude, 

 and 214 degrees, 42 miriures Weft Longitude, 

 where Captain Cook refitted his veffel, after having 

 run aground; " Neither the flood tide, nor the 

 " ebb, were confîderable, except once in twenty- 

 *' four hours, juft as we found it while we were fall 

 " upon the rock." (Captain Cook^ June, 1770 ) 



At the entrance of Chriftmas harbour, in Ker- 

 guelen'sLand, about 48 degrees, 29 minutes South 

 latitude, and 68 degrees, 42 minutes Eaft Lon- 

 gitude; " While we were lying at anchor, we ob- 

 '^ ferved that the flood-tide came from the South- 



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