TIDE GAUGE REGISTER. 



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Since the last number of this Journal was published, the tide record, a 

 part of which has appeared upon its pages, has furnished data for the con- 

 struction of tide tables for the port of Bristol. These tables, which are 

 due to the industry — we fear we must add, the disinterested industry — of 

 Mr. Bunt, were constructed partly from the above data, and in part from 

 observations made under Mr. Hilhouse's direction at the Bristol dock gates. 

 To say that they are the best tables extant along the shores of the Bristol 

 Channel, is to say little in their praise : but they have been pronounced 

 by the highest authority upon tydological subjects to be among the best 

 yet calculated in this country ; and there seems little doubt but that in a 

 few years they will be superior even to those of Liverpool. 



The praise of an expiring journal is even weaker than ordinary praise ; 

 but Mr. Bunt will find his best reward in the consciousness of the service 

 that he has rendered to this city, in the saving both of life and property 

 that his tables are likely to effect. 



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