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ovciflowed by the Tyde^ but when the wind is at North weft,or 
thereaboutjUpon the Spring-Tydes. Here at Weymonlh thofc a- 
bleand antient Seamer^ Ihave talked with^ tell me, that a SSE. 
wind makes the greateft Tydes , and that according to the de- 
cree of the wind, cete<ris paribus^ the Tydes rife more or lefs no- 
tably 5 but that they never ob(erve any extraordinary fwelling 
Tydes about AOhallontide or Candlemas , unlefi the wind be a- 
bout SSE. And the reafon they give for that winds raifing the 
Tydes therejis fin my opinion) very convincing, if we confidcr 
the lying of the Haven in the Map. And for the fame reafon I 
fuppofe the wind from the fame point may make the Higheft 
Tydes at Southhamptm 5 a Wefterly wind at Brjjiol^^nd Stverne ^ 
m Eafterly wind at H«// 5 a North-Eaft wind at msbych and Lyn\ 
a^outherly wind upon the oppofite Coafts o( England and /r^- 
landficc^ And as confident I am^ that if more particular enqui- 
ry be made in RHmney^MarJb , it will be found , that Dtmchurch* 
rcallh never in danger of being overflowed or broken by the 
Tydesj but upon very ftornly and tempeftuous weather, efpe- 
cially when the Wind either blows right-on upon the Shore , or 
when it fits in that point 3 that raifeth the Tydes higheft there. 
Whether the Norrh- weft wind ( becaufe of the little diftance of 
RHmnBy Marj]y(tomi\iQ Forelands ) be the raifing wind or no, I 
cannot certainly -affirm^ but fo much I believe ^ that were it not 
for the running out of the NeJJe-point on this fide(which makes the 
Coafta Bay, ) and the running out of Blacl^neje-point 'm France 
on the otherfide, Difnchurch*n?all would be more fecure , and 
need lefi conftant Reparation than it doth* And if we do but 
confider, th^it AllhallontJde and Can die /nas are no more famous 
for the longeft and (hortcft Natural days^than they are generally 
infamous for ftormy weather 5 efpecially the former feafon , (wet 
and windy weather being moft concomitant,) we have good 
ground to attribute high Tydes, at thofe times of the year, to a- 
nother caufe, than the Author fuppofeth 5 and make a more than 
probable conjedure at the occafionof themiftake* It is true, 
March b very often more ftormy than February (though feldome 
' fo ftormy as O&ober and November ) which polfibly might occafion 
that opinion, which fome hold , (of which number, Pliny is one, ) 
that the higheft Tydes are about the Eqmnoxes. And if the thisg 
' were found to hit pretty frequently in March 5 men might not be 
careful 
