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are smaller than those computed theoretically should be attributed, according 

 to Sterneck, to frictional influences which might perhaps be stronger between 

 cross-sections 4 and 6 (see Fig. 192), where the lake is relatively shallow. 

 Grace (1931, p. 301) has, however, expressed the opinion that the effect of 

 the tides of the solid earth might manifest themselves, and he has been able 

 to prove that this assumption can explain perfectly the decrease of the am- 

 plitudes (see Chapter XV, p. 508). 



