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pany-, ftruck with conflernation, were, for feveral 

 days together, under the apprehenfion that their 

 veflel, which they had hauled up on the beach to 

 be refitted, could never be got afloat again *. I 

 (hall fay nothing of thofe of New Guinea, where, 

 toward the end of April, the fame Navigator ex- 

 ■perienced feveral, on the contrary, in the fpace of 

 a fingle night, which extended, in diredl oppoli- 

 tion to ours, from North to South, and came from 

 the Weft in very rapid fwells, tumultuous, and 

 preceded by enormous furges, which did not 

 break; nor of the inconfiderable elevation of thefe 

 Tides on the coaft of Brafil, and in moft of the 

 iflands of the South-Sea, and of the Eaft-Indies, 

 where they rife only to 5, 6, 7, feet, whereas Ellis 

 found them 25 feet high at the entrance of Hud- 

 fon's-Bay, and the Chevalier Narbrougk, 20 feet at 

 the entrance of Magellan's Straits. 



Their courfe toward the Equator in the South- 

 Sea, their retardations and accelerations on thefe 

 fhores, their direftions, fometimes call ward, fome- 

 times weftvvard, according to the Monfoons; 

 finally, their rife, which increafcs in proportion as 

 we approach the Pole, and diminifli in proportion 

 to out diftance from it, even between the Tropics, 



* Dtimpier\ Voyages : Treatife on Winds and Tides, pages 

 •378 and 379. 



demonftrate, 



