which you fay you gave me notice of in your firft, not received, 
and which happened 06iob, 25. 1654. I had alfo notice of it 
from Mr, Street^ and had provided in fome meafure to obferve 
It 5 but the skie was fo overcaff^ that the Sun could fcarce be 
difcerned all that day. 
Next^ concerning the Tides ^ P have only taken a general no* 
ticeof them V as, that it is high water about 7. of the clock on 
the ch'angc-d^y (in fome Creeks an hour or two later.) Tlie 
water rifeth but little, as about 4. foot at a high water 5 but ar 
the Spring-tides, it may be a foot more. The Tides mthout are 
very various in their fetting. Sometimes the Tide of Eloudfets 
to th^ Edfl'i^ar J y fometimcs to the Wefi-mrd : but in fair,- 
calm and fettled weather the faid Tidefcts from the South^caf}, 
toward the North-mftj as they fay. 
We ^ig^WeKs oi frefi-watet fometiraes within 20 yards of the 
Sea or lefs, which rife and fall upon thsFloud, and ebb as the- 
Sea doth 5 andfo do moftof the Wells in the Gountiy, though 
. further »v T^slam informed.) Whercfoever they digg Wells 
here, they digg till they come almoft to a Level with the Super- 
ficies of the Sea^ and then they find either /rr^;- water or fah. If 
ith^ frefhy yet if they digp'2. or j. foot deeper^, or often iefs^^. 
they come to water,. If it be a ftndy ground , or a fandy 
crumbling Stone, that the water foaks gently through, they find 
ufually /r^yj-water but if they be hard Lyme-ftone- rocks, which 
the water cannot foak through, but palTcth in chinks or 
clefts between- them, the water is fab or brackifh.. Yet (to 
mention that by the by) 1 never faw any fand in the Country 
fuch as will grind glafle, or whet knives, &c. as in England; but 
a fubftance like fand^ though much fofter .5 , neither have we any. 
PMe-ftones or Flint, 
For iht killing oi Whales, it hath been formerly attempted- 
in vain;, but within thefe 2. or 3. years> in the Spring-time and 
fair weather, they take fometimesone, or two, or three in a day, . 
They arelefs^ I hear, than thofe in Greenland^ but more quick 
and lively, fo that ' if they be ftruek in deep water, they prefent- 
iy make into the deep, with fuch violence, that the Boat is i»^ 
danger to be haled down after them, if they cut not the rope ia 
tune; T'herefore.they ufually. ftrike them in ihoalr water. TJhey 
have 
