thcN'onh ;) and bh the tontmry'finks lSQicw its level upon 
the retreat of the M^dter both ways, in the Tide of El^l? ; 
It) it is very probable, that the Jir mdiy ehh md JIoiv, after 
the fame rnanner ; but by reafon of the diverfity of Caufes^ 
whereby the Jir may be fet in moving, the tim^es of thele 
f%:ices and refluxes thereof, are purely cafual and not redu- 
cible to any Rule, as are the Motions of the Sea, depend- 
ing wholly upon the regular courfe of the The next 
Tra^^facfio^ fhdll givQ 3,n Hiftorical Relation of t\voik Winds 
which are found to have any thing of Conftancy, and floall 
endeavour to affign the Gaufes thereof. 
An Account of two Books, (i .) A Free Enquiry infa 
the Vulgarly receiwd 'Notion of Nature^ by the Ho- 
nourable R. B^Ty/^^Efqi Printed by J.Taylor at the 
Globe in St. P Ws-Church-Yard, /^//;/(? 1686. ^^0.^ 
I S not without reafon, that the renowned Author of 
1 ' this Tre-atife wonders that none have written con- 
cerning Nature herfelf, and yet fo many have fo largely 
treated of the Works of Nature. But this will feem left 
ftrangc to him that confiders for how many Ages the whole 
Learned World has been devoted to the Peripaumk Vna- 
ciples of Matt-er and Form, and with how blind an obe- 
dience the Dodrine of Ariflotle hath been unLverfally recei- 
ved and maintained y For the vulgar Notion of Nature, 
concurring with the Peripatetick , having been generally 
admitted, all men thought it unfafe to oppugn the opinion 
of the multitude, and at the fame time to call in queftion 
the authority of thofe reputed for Learning ; fubjefting 
their own judgments, by a fervile refignation unworthy the 
name of a Philofopher to the Dogmes of others. This 
feems to be the chief, if ^ot the only caufe of the propaga- 
tion 
