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and round a peninsula called Earn Pasture. This peninsula is 

 only connected by a narrow neck of land fifty yards wide, and is 

 three miles in circumference from neck to neck. This neck is 

 very flat and level. When, therefore, the tide in rising has 

 encircled the peninsula, the waters flow back over the neck into 

 the river again, falling into it a distance of two feet. Thus 

 showing that in three miles the water has risen a height of 

 two feet. 



It will be evident, therefore, that great inaccuracies must 

 prevail from similar causes in certain parts of the world, regard- 

 ing the height of rising ground above the general sea level. 



In conclusion, while we have great faith in the mutually 

 attractive forces of nature, we have no reason to believe that 

 they cause the tides, but rather that the influence exerted over 

 them arises from their counterpart, the repelling forces of 

 nature, which have here sole control. 



