and the Inliabitants livelyhood depending moft on grazing, or 
feeding Sheep; they arc ( as you may believe they fiave rcafon 
to be) very vigilant and obfervant,at what times they are moflc 
in danger of having their Lands drowned. And I find them ge- 
nerally agreed, by their co.iftantObfcrvations, (and Experi- 
ence dearly bought ) that their times of danger are about the 
beginning oi February and ot November-, that is, at thofe Spring 
Tides which happen near thofe times ^ to which they give the 
nzm^s o( Candlema/j'fiream ^nd yiHhallond-fiream: And if they 
fcape thofe Spring-tides they apprehend themfelves out of 
Danger for the reft of the year. And as for March and Septem- 
ber{{\\^ two jEquinoxes) they are as little (olicitous of them, as of 
any other part of the year- 
This,Iconfefs,Imuch wondred at, when I firft heard ir; and 
fufpecSied it to be but a miftake ot him, that firft told me^though 
he were indeed a perfon not likely fo to be raiftakeU; in a thing 
wherein he was fo much concerned : Bud foon found, that it 
was not onely his,but a general obfervation of others too ; both 
there^and eUcwhere along the Ssa coaft. And though they did 
not pretend to know any reafon of it, (nor fo much as to en- 
quire after it 5 ) Yet none made doubt of it ; but would rather 
laugh at any that fliould talk of March and September , as being 
the dangerous times. And fince that time,I have my felf very 
frequently obferved ( botlfJUt London and elfcwhere , as I have 
had occafion ) that in thofe months of February and November^ 
(efpecially Notfember) the Tides have run much higher, than at 
other times : Though I confefsj have nor been fo diligent to fet 
down thofe Obfervations, as I fliould have done. Yet this I do 
particularly very well remember, that in November i4>6o. (the 
fame year that his Majefty returned ) having occafion to go by 
Coach from the Strand to Wejlminjfer ^ I found the Water fo 
high in the middle of K^n^-fireet , that it came up^ not onely to 
the /?oors,but into the iSody of chc Coach ; and the Tallace^yard 
(all favc a little place near the JK^7^-JB«^ overflow'd^ as like- 
wife the Market-place ; and many other places and their Cel- 
lars generally filled up with Water. And 'mNovember\^^^\66 ^. 
it may yet be very well remcmbred, what very high Tides there 
were,not onely on the Coafts of iE/?g/^«^,(where much hurt was 
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