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cean, that have their flux and reflux every day 5 and 

 befides that, they have it monethly, which commeth 

 twice, that is to fay, at the entry, and at theful of every 

 Moone, which they call Spring tides. To fay that any 

 fcahath this daily ebbing and flowing , and not mo 

 nethly , I knowe not any. It is ftrange , the difference 

 we finde of this fubied at the Indies., for there are fbme 

 places whereas the fea doth daily rife & fall two leagues' 

 as at Panama^ and at a high water it rifeth much more- 

 There are other places where it doth rife and fall fo lit 

 tle, that hardly can you finde the difference . It is ordi 

 nary in the Ocean Tea to have a daily flowing and eb 

 bing, and that was twice in a naturall day , and ever it 

 falls three quarters of an houre fooner one day thervan- 

 other, according to the courfe of the Moone : fa as the 

 tidefalles notalwayes in one houre of the day. Some 

 would lay, that this flux and reflux proceeded from the 

 locall motion of the water of the fea $ fo as the water 

 that rifethon the one fide,falles on the other that isop- 

 pofitevnto it: fo that it is ful fea on theonefidewhen 

 as it is a lowe water on the oppofite, as we fee in a kettle 

 full of water, when wee moove it, when it leanes to the 

 one fide the water increafeth- and on the other it dimi- 

 aifheth . O thers affirme , that the fea rifeth in all partes 

 at one time, anddecreafethatoneinftant : as the boy- 

 ling of a pot , comming out of the centre it extendeth 

 it felfe on all partes, an<3 when it ceafeth , it falles like- 

 wife on all partes. 



This fecond opinion is true , and in my Judgement, 

 certaine and tried, not fo much for the reafbns which 

 thePhilofophers give in their Meteors , as for the cer- 

 taine experience wee may make.For to fatisfie my felfe 

 vpon this point and queftion, I demanded particularly 



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