'Friezlafid^Emhderhnd^zvA elfewhercand notfatfrcm dock^mhy 
Ondt:woiidHmer-7:jilh2Lhxt^chQi^^^ long Broken in the 
Dyke : the Mooo in Ferig^o. 
10. AHguji2^ 1657. ft. V. 2it Feverjljam (where I thenlived ) 
was a very high Spring-Tyde, and yet the wind was at Somh- 
Eaft 5 which deads the Tydes there : the Moon in Perig<eo, 
11. Augufi 22. I 658. ft.v^at fez^er/:?^/^/ wasa very highXydein 
,the Afcer-noonj though the wind v/as Southerly^ and blew very 
ftiff, which the Seamen there wondered at: the Moon in Peri" 
12. i66f. Upon Michaelmas dsy v/as a great overflowing of 
the Severn ythsLt it drowned the low grounds lying by ir^ I Hved 
then in GloceJierpire, and immediately as foon as 1 heard ofitj I 
noted it down in my memoraodums % the Moon in Verigceo, 
15» The Scheme of the weather printed in the Hiftory of the 
K. Seciety tQ\hm^ih2iX Aiay 2^, 1665. was a very great Tyde at 
London, But it tells us Vv^ithali that the fame day the Moon- was io 
Per7g£o, 
14 Sept 1.166^, Here at ^Y////^'///A,Iobrerved my felf a very 
high Tyde, and fo did feveral Seamen in that Town, who won- 
dered at It J the weather being very calmjand that little wind that 
was being at North- Eaft, which ufes to contribute nothing at ail 
to the Tydes in that haven : the Moon in Per/g^^?. 
Further, that which incliaies mee to believe, that the Perig£' 
^{is of the Moon is of fome concernment in this matter, is, becaufe 
it is a Maxim .^mongft our Kmtip Seamen, that they never have 
two running Spring-Tydes (as they call them) together, but that 
the next Spring tyde, after a high running Springgis proportio* 
nably weak and flack 5 vvhich,if true Js very corrf^fpondent to my 
opinion, becaufe if the Moon be in Perigxo at this Spring- tyde, 
(he will be in Apog£o at the nejft* 
But I conceive.the beft touch ftone to prove the foundnefs of 
my opinion (which f confefs ! never had the opportunity to d^} 
yet,) isjto have it obfcrrved, whether thoie Neap-tydes be nor sp- 
pdVQntlyh'^gher Cconfderaih cop^fideraf^dis) that happen at the 
Moons being in ?er/g£o either at the firft or laft quarter Becaufe 
it IS a received and demonftrable truth in Aftronomy, that the 
Moon being in Fer/g<^^ at either quarter comes then nearer the 
Earth/han when it is in Perig£o at the Change or Full, And I could 
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