(what I conjedure to be from the fame caiifes) the greateft la- 
equalities of the natural Days, happening in January and 0S§^ 
ber. But this though I can admit,yet (till 1 am fure ©f the mat- 
ter of Fad:) I do not build upon. And fiace it hath hitherto 
been the cuftome to fpeak with thatlaxnefs of exprellipn; af- 
figning the times of New-moon, FuH-moon,and Quadratures, 
with the Moons comming to Sotith, for, what is ncer thofe 
times : I did not think ray felf obliged in my conje6luraI Hy- 
pothefis (while it is yet but a Candidate) to fpeak more nicely. 
If the Hypothefis for the maineof itbcfoand Rational • the 
Niceties of it are to be adjuftcd, in time , from particular Ob- 
fervation. 
Having thus given you fome Aufwers to the ObjecStions yoa 
fignifietoha^e been madeby feveralperfbns to myHypoihefis, 
and that in the fame order your Paper prefcnts them tome: I 
fhall next give you fome account of the two Boo^s^ which you 
advifedmeto confult 5 fo. far as feems necefTaryto this bufi- 
nefs : Which^upon your intimationji have fince perufed,though 
before I had not* 
And firft,as to that of Ifaac Vojfms , De motu Maaum ^3 Ven^ 
ifir«;WiThough I do not concur with him in his Hypath * That 
' the Great: motions of the Seas, §)CC. fliould arifconely from /a 
fmall a warming of the water 2iiX.o raife it (where mofl of all) mt a 
Feoi in perpendicular^ (as in his 1 Chapter;) Or that there 
Is no other connexion between the Moons motion, and the 
Tydes menfirml period, than a cafual Synchronifm (which feems 
y to be the dodtrine of his t6^Z> and iSi"/? Chapters:,) Befide ma- 
ny other things in his Philofophyj which I cannot allow : Yet I 
am well enough pleafed with what is Hiftorical init, of the 
matter of Fad : Efpecially if I may be feeure,that he is therein | 
accurate and candid, not wrefting thePi?^«o;w^««to his own j| 
purpofe. But I find nothing in it,which doth induce me to vary | 
from my Hypothefis. For, granting his Hiftortcals to be all j| 
true; the account of the conftant Current of the Sea Wefl- if 
ward, and of the conftant Eaftern Blafls, &c. within the Tre- I 
pick-f^ is much more plaufibly , and (I fuppofe) truly rendered j 
by G«//7^0 long fince, from the Earths D^arw^z/ motion: (which, j| 
neare the M^uator. defcribing a greater Circle, than nearer the | ■ 
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