PHnies Naturall Hiftorie* 



A for as fhe groweth biggerjthey flow more, but in the fiiU they fwell and boile mofl of all . From 

 that time they begin againe to be more mild : and in the firft daies of the wain unto the feventh, 

 the tides are equall : and againe when fhe is devided on the other iide^ and but halfe Moon^they 

 cncreafe greater. And in the Conjun(Stion or the change;they are cquall to the tides of the full. 

 And evidently it appearethjthat when fhe is Northerly, and retired higher and farther from the 

 earthjths tides are more gentlejthan when fhee is gone Southerly; for then fhee worketh nesrec 

 hand^and putteth forth her full power. Every eightyeere alfo^and after the hundrcth revolution 

 of theMoone, the feasreturnc to the beginning of their motions^ andtothelikeencreafe and 

 growth:by reafon that flie augmenteth ail things by the yeerly courfe of the Sunneifor as much 

 as in the two equino(Siials they ever fwel moft,yet more in that of the Autumnejthan the Spring^ 



B but nothing to fpeak of in Mid- winter jand lefle at Mid-fummer. And yet thefe things fall not out 

 juft in thefe very points and inftants of t"he times which I have named, butfomcfew daies after I 

 like as neither in the full nor in the change, but afterward : ne yet prefently fo foonc as the hea- 

 ven either fheweth us the Moone in her rifmgjor hideth her from us at her fetting^or as fhee de- 

 clineth from us in the middle climate, but later almoft by two equinodiail houres. For as m.uch 

 as the efte6t of all influences and operations in the heaven reach not fofoone unto the earth, as 

 the eiefight pierceth up to the heavenras it appeareth by lightningSjthunderSjand thunderbolts^ 

 Moreover, all tides in the maine Ocean,over(pread, cover and overflow much more within the 

 land, than in other ieas befides : either becaule the whole and univerfall element is more coura- 



^ geous than in a partior for that the open greatneflfe and largenelfe thereof/eeleth more efieclu- 

 ally the power of the planet,woiking forcibly as it doth farre and neere at libertie,tiian when the 

 fame is pent and retrained within thofe freights. Which is thecaufc that neither lakes nor lit- 

 tle rivers ebbe and flow in like manner. Pjthuu ot MairiIes,writeth,That above Brittaine the tide 

 floweth in height eightie cubites. But the more inward and Medireranean narrow feas are lluic 

 up within thoiands,as in an haven .Howbeic,infome places u morefpaciousiibertie there is that 

 yeeldeth to the power and commaund of the Moone; for wee have many examples and experi- 

 mciits of them that in acalmefea without wind and faile, by aitraungcwater oneiy, have ti- 

 dedftomltalieto Vticainthreedaics. But thefe tides andquicke motions of the fca, arefound 

 to be about the flioresjraorethan in the deepe maine fea. For even fo in our bodies the extream 



p and utmoil: parts have a greater feeling of the beating of arteries, that is to fay, the vital! fpirits. 

 Yet notwithftandingin many fitthes and armes of the lea, by reafon of the unlike rifings of the 

 planets in every coafl, the tides arediverfe, and difagreeing in time, but notiareafcnand 

 cauie, as namely in the Syttes. And yetfomethere bee that have a peculiar natureby thcni- 

 lelves, as the Firth Taurominitanum, which ebbeth and flowechofcener than tvsice : and that 

 other in Eubi.)e3, called likewife Euripus,which haih (even tides to and fro in a day and a night. 

 And the fame cyde three dayes in a moneth ftandeth fliil, namely in the 7, 8, and <^ daies oi thd 

 raooncsagc. AtGades, thefovintaine next unto the chappellof ^^'w.W,; is enclofed about 

 like a well J the which atfometimes rifcdiand falleth^sthc Ocean doth: at others againe, it 

 doth borb, at contrarie (eafons. In the fame place there is another Ipring that keepeth order and 



g time with the morions ofthe Ocean. On the bankeof BstisthereisatownCjthev^ells v^hereofas 

 the tyde floweth,doe ebbe ; and as it ebbeth jdoe flow : in the mid times betw£ene,they ftirre not , 

 Ofthefamequahtie^thereisonepitin the towneHilpalis vail the reft be as others arc. And the 

 fca Pontus evermore floweth and runneth out into Propontis, but the fea neuer retireth backs 

 againe within Pontus, 



Chap, xcviit» 



A LI feas are purged andfcoured in the full Moone ;and fonie befides atcertainetimes.Abou^ 

 MefTala and Nyla^, there is voided upon the i"hoare,certainedi-egges and fflchinefle like to 

 F hearts dung : whereupon arofe the fable jThat the Sunnes oxen were there kept in flall.Hereunto 

 ^ddcihy^njloile (for I would not omit willingly any thing that 1 know) that no living creature 

 idieth but in the refluxeandebbe of the fea. This is obfei vetl much in die Ocean of f raunce^ 

 ijiKfownd pnely in man by experience, true. 



