(^79) 
plication of caofes. For (as we before fiie^wed in the Menflrud 
and Diurnal) there will, by this inequality of Natural daies, arifc 
a Phyfical Acceleration and Retardation of the Earrhs Mem 
motion, and accordiagly a cafting of the Waters backward or 
forward 3 either of which, will caule an AccumiriatiGo or High* 
water, 
'Tis true, that thefc longeft and fliorteft daies^do (according 
to the Tables^ fome at leaftj fall rather before , than after 
balkntide and Candlemas {io wit the ends of OBober and Januarp) 
but fodo alfo (fometimes)thofe high Tydes; And it is not yei: 
fo well agreed amongft/^jFraMwrn, what are all the Caufes(and 
in what degrees J of the Inequality of Natural daiesi but that 
there be diverfitics among them, about the true time ; And whe- 
ther the introducing of this New Motion of the Earth in its 
Epicycle abouc this Common Center of Gravity.on^t not there- 
m alfo to be accounted for, I will not now determine: Having 
already faid enough , if not too much ^ for the explaining of 
this general Hypothecs , leaving the particularities of it to be 
adjufted according to the true raeafures of the motions ; if the 
General Hypothcfis be found fit to be admitted. 
Yet this I mull add-, ( chat I be not miftaken) that whereas 
I caft the time of the daily Tydes to be at all places, when the 
Moon is there in the Meridian ; itmuft be underflood of open 
Seas, where the water hath fuch free fcope forks motions 5 as 
if the whole Globe of Earth were equally covered with water • 
Well kriowiiag, that in Bayes and In land- Channels ^xhc poficion of 
the Banks and other like caufes muft needs make the times to 
be much different from what wefuppofe in the open Seas : And 
likew!fe,that even in the Open Seas^ IJlands^ and Currents, Gulfs 
and Shallows, may have fome influence, though nqt compara- 
ble to that oi Bays and channels. And moreover ^ though I 
think, that Seamen do commonly reckon the time of High- 
water in the Open Seas, to be then , when the Moon is there in 
■theMeridian (as this Hypothcfis would caft it :) Yet I do not 
take my felf to be fo well furniflied with a Hifiery ofTides^ as to 
afTure iny felf of it 5 much lefs to accommodate it to particular 
places and cafes. 
Having thus difpatched the main of what I had to fay con- 
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