C<^8 3] 
t^de laft year in the nth moone, which occafionally upaii 
thc Shi^ Eagles departure hence, I took fome notice of, 
and entred in the clofe of my Sea journal, did fall out 
not difagreeing with what they affirrae, and I am yet the 
rather indue d to believe that in every annual revolution 
there may be fuch a conftancy in this different motion 
of the appropriated to each moiety of the year, be- 
<2aule, that dureing my .... dayesftay ztBatJha ; I have 
found the prediSi^ons of the natives confirmed by my 
owne ohfervations of the tides falling out to be high wa- 
ter alwayes between ^200725 and the fucceeding midnight 
occafioned by the aforefaid falling back at the end of 
dayes ; fo that on every 5^ day of the waters increafe, 
the flood begins at the hour whereon the day before it 
ended. 
To prevent miftakes in the accomptof the moones^ 
though the difference of meridians between thi'^^/^^r^ and 
£o7/^(?;2,togetherwith the different beginning ot their iia- 
tural day in their accompts here^ from that of ours, and 
fpmeiraperfedions from which thQif Jjironomical obfer- 
vations are not free, may occafion a difagreement be- 
tween our accompt and theirs, of the /woow^i age, yet it 
will never be fo confiderable as to occafion any fenfible, 
atleaft dangerous ^rr^r in the above mentioned reck- 
oning of the tides^ provided the number ofthemoneth 
be not mifbaken. 
Wherefore it may be fufficient to informe thofe who 
ufe this Pi?r^,,that the firft change of the moone after the 
I /if/? day oijanuary old ilile, is reckoned for the begining 
ofthe^^^r, and that moone being accompted the firft, 
the reft follow in order until the expiration of the 122^/) 
which compleats their year, alwayes except only in their 
leap years, and theathey have 1 3 moones, takeing in one 
extraordinary to make up the deficiency of thc moonei 
.epaB 'm their accompt, in which year thefirft day of their 
nqw yeares moone falls out before the faid i sth of Janua^ 
rj'^as jt did tiiis year . upon the 1 being leap year e with 
' ' them. 
