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Poles, makes the Current to be there more confpicuotis and 
fwift 3 and, confequently, the Eddy, or recurrent motion^near- 
er the Poles, where this is^niore rcmils : ) than can eafily be ren- 
dered by fo fmall a Tumor, as he (uppofeth. Not to adde \ that 
his account of the Progreffive motion, which he fanfieth to fol- 
low upon this Tumefad:ion, and by Acceleration to grow to 
fo great a height near the Shoar (as in Chap, and 14. ) is 
aNotion,which feems to ine too extravagant to be faJved by a- 
ny laws of Static]^, And chat of the Moons motion oiiely Syn* 
ehronizing with the Tydes, cafually, without any P/^^f^/con- 
nexion • 1 can very hardly affent to. For it can hardly be 
imagined, that any fuch conftant Synchtonifme lliould be in 
Nature; butwhere^eitherth'^onei^ the caufe of the other, or 
both depend upon [om^C&mmon caufe. And where we fee f ) faic 
a foundation for a Fhyfieal connediion. I am not prone to a- 
fcribe it to an Independent Synchronifm. Infum^ His Hiftory 
doth well enough agree with my Hypothcfis 5 andlthiak^ the 
Phssnomcna are much better falved by mine, than his. 
And then as to Gaffencklk^m his difcourfe De ^fiu Maris^l find 
him, ahcr the relating of ignany other Opinions concerning the 
Caufe of itjinclining t ) that of G/^///<f<?5arcribing it to theAccele- 
ration & Retardation of the Earths motionjCompounded of the 
Annual and Diurnal ^ And moreover attempting to g've an ac- 
count of the Menffrual Periods ftom the Earths carrying the 
Moon about it felifas Jupiter doth his Sateffites j which together 
with them is carryed about by the Sun, as one Aggregate^; (and 
that the Earth with its Moon is to be fuppofcd in like manner to 
be carried about by the Sun, as one Aggregate , cannot be rea- 
fonably doubted, by thofe who entertain the C0/?^r«/V^« hfypo- 
thefs^ and do allow the fame of Jupiter and his Satellhrs, ) But 
though he would thus have the Earth and Moon looked upon 
as two parts of the fame moved Aggregate, yet he doth ft'lj fup- 
pofe ( as Galilceo had done before him ) that the line of the 
Mean Motion of this Aggregate (or, as he calls, motus cequabi' 
lis it vduti menus') is dcfcribed by the Center oi the Earth (about 
which Center he fuppofeth both its own revolution to be made, 
and an Epicycle do fcr bed by the Moons morion j) nor by ano- 
ther Point^diftiEiii from theCenters of both.about which. as the 
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