Ivi ADVERTISEMENT. 



1 have edablifhed, then, by fads (impie, dear^ 

 and numerous, the difagreement of the tides in 

 mod Seas, with the pretended adion of the Moon 

 on the Equator, and, on the contrary, their perfeâ: 

 co-incidence with the adion of the Sun on the ices 

 of the Poles, 



I beg the Reader's pardon, but the importance 

 of thofe truths obliges me to recapitulate them. 



ift. The attradion of the Moon, as ading on 

 the waters of the Ocean, is contradided by the in- 

 fenfibility to her influence of mediterraneans and 

 lakes, which never undergo any motion when that 

 luminary pafTes over their Meridian, and even over 

 their Zenith. On the contrary, the adion of the 

 heat of the Sun, which extrads from the ices of the 

 Poles, the Currents and the Tides of the Ocean, is 

 afcertained by his influence on the icy moun- 

 tains, out of which iflue, in fummer, currents and 

 fluxes which produce real tides in the lakes which 

 are at their feet, as is vifible in the lake of Geneva, 

 fituated at the bottom of the Rhetian Alps. The 

 Seas are the lakes of the Globe, and the Poles arc 

 the Alps of it. 



2dly. The pretended attradion of the Moon on 

 the Ocean is totilly inapplicable either to the two 

 tides of fix hours, or femi-diuinal, of the Atlantic 



Ocean, 



