34 Mifcellanea Curiofa. 



the Land, grows very ftreight at its Extre- 

 mity j as it is in the Severr.-Sea Sit Chepftow and 

 Brijtcl. 



This flioalnefs of the Sea, and the intercurrent 

 Continents are the reafbn, that in the open Ocean 

 the time of High water is not at the Moons ap* 

 fuKe to the Meridian , but always fome Hours 

 after it \ as it is obferv'd upon all the Weft 

 jCoaft of Europe and Africa, from Ireland to the 

 Cave if Good- Hope: In all which a S. W. Moon 

 makes High-water, and the fame is reported to 

 be on the Weft fide of America. But it would 

 be endltfs to account all the particular Solutions, 

 which are eafie Corollaries of this Hypothefis ; as 

 why the Lakes, fuch as the Cafpian Sea, and 

 Mediterranean Seas, fuch as the Blacky Sea, the 

 Str eights ..and Baltic^ have no fenfiblc Tides : 

 For Lakes having no Communication! with the 

 Ocean, can neither increafe i nor diminifh: their 

 Water, whereby to rife and fall ; and Seas that 

 communicate by fuch narrow Inlets, and are of 

 fo immenfe an Extent, cannot in a few Hours 

 time receive or empty Water enough to raife or 

 fink their Surface any thing fenfibly. 



Laftly, to demonftrate the Excellency of this 

 Doctrine, the Example of the Tides in the Port 

 of Tunkjng in China, which are fo extraordinary, 

 and differing from all others we have yet heard 

 of, may fuffice. In this Port there is but one 

 Flood and Ebb in 24 Hours ; and twice in each 

 Month, vi%. when the Moon is near the i*Ecmi- 

 no&ial there is no Tide at all, but the Water is 

 ftagnant ; but with the Moons Declination there 

 begins a Tide, which is greateft when "fhe is in 

 the Tropical Signs : Only with this difference, 

 that when the Moon is to the, Northward of 

 the ^Eqnino6lialj it Flows when die is above 



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