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every Country, or none at all, which \% 

 the Countries Ruin. But; to return, The 

 Tides in thefe Rivers regularly ebb and flow 

 about two Foot perpendicular at James Town • 

 there is there, as they call it, a Tide and 

 half Tide, that is, it flows near two hours 

 along by the Shoar, after that it is ebb ia 

 the Channel, and again it ebbs near two 

 Hours by the Shoar, after that it is Flood 

 in the Channel. This is great advantage to 

 the Boats pafling up and down the River. I 

 Hippofe this is caufed by many Creeks and 

 Branches of the Rivers, which being confi- 

 derable many, tho' only three or four Miles 

 long, yet as broad as the Thames at London 

 others ten Miles long, fome above twenty^ 

 that have little frefh Water which they car-- 

 ry of their own, but their Current primari- 

 ly depending upon the Flux and Re-flux of 

 the Sea. So that after the Tide is made in 

 the Channel, it flows by the Shoar a confi- 

 derabl? time afterwards, being that thofe 

 Creeks are ftill to fill, and therefore as it 

 were draws up a Source upwards by the Shoar; 

 and likewife when the Tide returns in the 

 Channel, the Creeks that could not fb rea- 

 dily disburfe: their Water , being ftill to 

 (empty themfelves, they make an ebbing by 

 the Shoar a^confiderable time after that it; is 

 Flood, as I fay, in the Channel. So far as, 

 the Salt Waters reach the Country is deeme^ 

 lefs healthy. In the Frefhes they more rare- 

 ly are troubled with the Seafonings , and, 

 thofe Endemical Diltempers about Seftem^ 

 her mdOM^r. ' This being very reinarkable^ 



