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the Earth, and Ebbs when (he is under, fb as to 

 make High-water at Moons-fetting, and Low- 

 water at Moons-rifing : But on the contrary, 

 the Moon being to the Southward, makes High- 

 water at rifing, and Low-water at fet tin** ; it 

 Ebbing all the time (he is above the Horizon. 

 As may be feen more £c large in the Phiiofophical 

 Tranfattions, Numb. 1 62. 



The Gaufe of this odd Appearance is propos'd 

 by Mr, Memton, to be from the concurrence of two 

 Tides j the one propagated in fix Hours out of 

 the great South-Sea along the Coafr. of China ; 

 the other out of the Indian-Sea, from between 

 the Illands in twelve Hours, along the Coaft of 

 Malacca and Cambodia. The one of thefe Tides, 

 being produe'd in North Latitude, is, as has been 

 (aid, greater, when the Moon being to the North 

 of the Equator is above the Earth, and lefs 

 when me is under the Earth. The other of them, 

 which is propagated from the Indian Sea, being 

 raifed in South- Latitude, is greater when the 

 Moon declining to the South, is above the Earth, 

 and lefs when fhe is under the Earth : So that 

 of thefe Tides alternately greater and leffer, there 

 comes always fucceffively two of the greater and 

 two of the leffer together every Day ; and the 

 High-water fills always between the times of 

 the arrival of the two greater Floods \ and the 

 Low- water between the arrival of the two lef- 

 fer Floods. And the Moon coming to the 

 Equinoctial, and the alternate Floods becoming 

 equal, the Tide ceafes, and the Water ftag- 

 nates : But when fine has pafs'd to the other fide 

 of the Equator, thofe Floods which in the for- 

 mer Order were the lead, now becoming the 

 greateft, that That before was the time of 

 High-water* now becomes the Low- water, and 



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