On the firft andfecond dayes of the waters increafe 
the influxes are very fmall and uncertain, but afterwards 
theT^'^^x for li dayes are conftant in their courfe, one 
flood and one ebb being compleated in 24 hours time, e- 
qually fharing the fpace of a Lunar circuition of the 
Earth between them, and every flood beginning near- 
eft I of an hour later then x\i^ precedent flood, and alio con- 
fiderably increafing in the height of the every day 
from the id unto the (^th and 7th dayes of the waters age^ 
on which two dayes the runs very high, but on the 
Ith^^^j (which may be accounted thelaft of the fpring 
tides ^ the waters begin gradually to decreafe again, re- 
taining the fame orderly difference of time in each tide^ 
until! the next following firft day of the waters incrcafe, 
when during two dayes unfetlednefs, there is a fliifting of 
the ^/V*?/ in refpedt of the beginning of the/c(?i and ^/j^, 
after which faid ihifting, a conftancy in their inverted 
courfe, is again retained in the above mentioned order 
fori^ dayes following, as for Example. 
On the 2j and 2{f dayes oixkiZ \th moone {4?^and 5-/^ 
oijune 167% D in the latter end of ^wx) being the firft 
dayes of the waters increafe, the influxes were very fmali 
(there happening on the ^6th a falling back of the 
tides about li hours) but from the 27 ^/^ [June 6. 78 J 
which was the 3d day of the waters increafe after the laft 
ijuatter,' unto the day of the sth moones age, [Jm^ 
18. id/S ]) in ^ 20,) I noted a very conftant courfe in the 
tides^ every fl^od begining with the rifing of the moone 
and ending at its letting, the following ebb in like man- 
ner continuing during the time of the moones abfence 
from this hemijphere. But on the faid ^th day of the ^th 
moones agQ (June 1%. 167$) being the firft day of the wa- 
ters increafe, their motion was icarcely perceptible ; on 
the 10^^ day there was another falling back of the /•/^^i' 
neareft 13 hours, andon the ii^Z'day, (which was the 
day of the waters increafe, after the firft quarter of the 
moones age) the flood having (as I faid) Ihifted the pre- 
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