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CHAP. VI. 



WINDS AND TIDES. 



Interest of the Subject. Air and Water, Ocean and Atmo- 

 sphere. Theory of the Tides. Tidal Phenomena. Eise of 

 Tide in various parts of the Coast. The Bore. Currents of 

 the Sea, The Winds. 



EVERY visitor of our sea-shores ought to be greatly 

 interested in the subject of the winds and tides. 

 Familiarity with such phenomena ought not to 

 render them less worthy of attention than those 

 of a more novel character. It is indeed the 

 province of well-cultivated minds, and such as 

 in any degree possess the quality of genius, to 

 find in things which, because of frequent oc- 

 currence, are all but unnoticed by common-place 

 observers, abundant interest and ample supplies 

 of intellectual occupation. Among such as are 

 thus happily gifted we would class those who 

 peruse this book, feeling assured that as they 

 wander by the sea-shore, they will not perceive 

 the periodical ebbing and flowing of the tides, 

 and the varying directions of the breezes that 

 ripple the waters, without considering the causes 

 of those familiar, but at the same time marvellous 

 and beautiful phenomena. 



