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be adduced as an objedion ; but he d,oubIed this 

 Cape only in the months of March and April, which 

 are, befides, two of the mod tempeftuous months 

 of the year, beca-afe of the general revolution of 

 the Atmofphere, and of the Ocean, which takes 

 place at the Equinox, when the Sun paffes from 

 the one Hemifphere to the other. 



Let us now explain, upon the fame principles, 

 why the tides of the South Sea do not refemble 

 thofe of the Atlantic Ocean. The South Pole has 

 nor, as the North Pole has, a double Continent, 

 which feparates into two the divergent effufions, 

 which the Sun daily fets a flowing from it's ices. 

 Nay it has no Continent whatever : it has, confe- 

 quently, no channel, in paffing through which it's 

 effluxes fliould be retarded. It's effufions, accor- 

 dingly, flow diredly into the vaft Southern Ocean, 

 forming, on the half of that Pole, a feries of diver- 

 gent emanations which perform the tour of it in 

 twenty-four hours, like the rays of the Sun. When 

 a bundle of thefe effufions falls upon an iiland, it 

 produces there a tide of twelve hours, that is, of 

 the fame duration with that which the Sun employs 

 in heating the icy cupola, through which the Me- 

 ridian of that ifland pafles. Such are the tides of 

 the Iflands of Taiti, of Maffafuero, of New Hol- 

 land, of New Britain, &c. Each of thefe tides 

 kits as long as the courfe of the Sun above the Ho- 



d 3 rizon. 



