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discussion of the Liverpool tides by employing more of the 

 Hutchinsonian observations. 



If the Brest observations vpere published it might be better to 

 proceed at once with their discussion, abandoning, if necessary, 

 for the present our Liverpool and London investigations. The 

 observations there have no doubt been carefully made, and the 

 situation of the port may appear to some to present advantages. 

 These advantages I am convinced have been much overrated, 

 and I attribute the extreme apathy which has been evinced on 

 the subject of the tides in this country until lately to the erro- 

 neous idea that little could be reaped from observations at places 

 so far removed from the open ocean as London. However I feel 

 much regret at being deprived of the opportunity of recurring to 

 the Brest observations, particularly as I am informed they have 

 long since been printed. 



