ADVERTISEMENT, xVÙl 



fouthern Hemifphere, but to the courfeof theSun, 

 which pafles into the northern Hemifphere, and 

 proceeds to warm, more and more, the ices of the 

 North Pole, the fulion of which increafes, in pro- 

 portion as the heat of the ftar of day increafes. 

 Befides, the diredion of thofe tides of the North 

 toward the Line, and other circumftances, willcon- 

 ftitute a complete confirmation that they derive 

 their origin from the Pole. 



At the entrance of Cook's River, on the coaft: of 

 America, toward 57 degrees, and 51 minutes, 

 North Latitude : *' Here was a flrong tide fetting 

 ** to the Southward out of the inlet. It was the 

 ** ebb, and ran between three and four knots in 

 *' an hour ; and it was low water at ten o'clock. 

 ** A good deal of fea-weed, and fome drift-wood, 

 ** were carried out with the tide. The water too 

 *' had become thick like that in rivers ; but we 

 ** were encouraged to proceed by finding it as fait 

 " at low water as the ocean. The ftrength of the 

 '* flood-tide was three knots ; and the ftream ran 

 ** up till four in the afternoon." (Captain Cooky 

 May, 1778.) 



By knoiSj the failors mean the divifions of the 

 log-rope ; and by /og, a fmall piece of wood which 

 they throw into the Sea tied to a rope, for meafur- 

 ing the courfeofa veflel. When in one minute, 

 three divifions^ or knots, of the rope run out from 



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