242 W. Dennis on the Theory of the Tides. : 
words, by tending to elongate the globe in a direction at right 
angles to that of the moon’s attraction, will lessen somewhat the 
vertical or lunar elongation. 
turning points to what it is at the next; but to deseribe these 
changes—and the same may be said of numerous subordinate of 
collateral branches of this subject—does not fall within the se 
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circumstance has be any means properly attended to, namely, that the lunat 
be raised in part, perhaps in some cases chiefly, by the pressure of those 
portion the surface waters lying northward or southward of the central points 
f the moon's direct influence; these wo he most part wholly usdist 
un’s influ unar ave is formed theoretically by 
upon, the edge of the wa e theoretical proportion betw 
. as been commonly, (not say careless 53 stated as that between the sum 
sy difference of the two separa ing influences of the sun and m 
to 3; but even theoretically this is manifestly i : 
of the case to consider the i ; 
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