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eeding day, took its turne to begin at the /7200«^/ fetting 
and end at its rifing, and accordingly the tides fuccei- 
fively following affumed & kept a conftant regularity the 
tides being at higheft the i6th of the mo one, (1^78. "jum 
24. <L in middle of y^) which was the feventhiof the wa- 
ters age, until the 23^ of the laid moones age [JmIj i.. 
I ($7 8.) on which (being the firft day of the waters in- 
creafe) the influx was again fcarcely difcernable for its 
fmallnefs. 
On the 24^Z>day the tides fall back (as I had found 
it twice before to have done on the fame dayesofthe 
waters age,) neareft ii hours, by whicLmeanes thtflood 
on the 252^^day (which was thei^day of the waters in- 
creafe after the; lalt qi^arter of the moone) now again com- 
menced with the rileing moone, whereby it hath fallen 
out allwayes Xq, be Iiigh water between noone and the 
following,;w/^?;ir^^^ every day during my ftay here, (d laft 
quarter 22 dayes, ([firft quarter 8 dayes.j 
So that it may pafs into a Corollary viz. In the 4th ^th 
and df^ changes of the ;72(?(?«^from the s^dayof the wa* 
tersage after the laft quarter, to the 3^ day of the wa^ 
ters age after the firft quarter of the following 77200«^, 
the water begins to flow when the moone rileth, and to ebb 
again when it fetteth in the Hhri^on, and the contrary 
to the 3<3?day ofV/^w age after the laft quarter, exclud- 
ing allwayes their motion on the 2 firft day'es of the wa- 
ters increafej becaufe of it§ fmallaels and uncertain- 
ly- 
I am inform'd by the inhabitants here abouts, that this 
may hold for a rule (lom the 2^ to the end of the 7^^ 
rn^e^/^^? and that the ,ri?OT/r/^ thereof holds true in the o-. 
ther fix months of the. year, from the %th to the end 
of the firft moone, according to. which the tides will fall 
out to be at the higheft in the evening for 6 months ; fuc^ 
CQflSvely, and the other half yeas in t\iQmorning,thzx'n to 
fay between midnight and the following moones, ^nA. 
tl^QAigh I cannot aver the truth of it, yet I find that the 
