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2. Abundance of Herrings fomecimes found on the top of a very ^ 
high Mountain, thought to be carriedthither by a kind of violent 
Whirl- wind, which falling on the Seaisfaid fotake up an incredi- 
ble quantity of water, fo that one may fee vaft cavities in the Sea, 
till the water meet again; and what Fifliesare then in that fpaceof 
water, are raifcd up by the force of that wind. 
3. The Rocks, of which chefe Iflandsconfifl:, are faid to be here 
and there Magnetical, on which if a Ssa-coiiipafs be fee, it will very 
nuich vary in fonie places to the Eaft, in others to the Weft. And at 
the South of oneof thefe Iflands, call'd Suderoe^ there is another 
Whirl-pool, in themidft whereof ftands an high Rock, on which a 
Compafs being put,it turns round, and is fo fpoiled^that afterwards 
it is ufelefs, unlefs the Needle be touched anew by a good Load- 
ftone. 
4. The ordinary declination of theNeedie on Ferce is by our 
Author affirmed to have been 13.^1.13.^.10 the jSforth^7veJl,A.i6'^^. 
The Tides are ftrongeft here, three daies before and three 
daies after the New and Full-Moon^ and a Noarth-eaft and a 
South-weft Moon, make higheft water in all the principal ftreams 
of thefe Iflands. In the other lefs confiderabIeones,'tis high- water 
at different hours,in fome before,in others afrerjthe ordinary time. 
6. The famous Whirl- pool or Sea-gulf under iyi?^»?.^', calVdthe 
Maal'Jlrom^ is by Kircker and others erroneoufly faid to run down 
under the Land of Norway^ and run out again at another Sea-gulf 
within the Sinus BotmcHs]?,^ this Author undertakes to prove,/'. 5 4» 
7. The Explication of the Tides, which by others is thought fo 
difficult, feems to our Author very plain and eafy, as confining, in 
his opinion, in nothing but ameer reciprocal nsotion, between the 
Continents, from Eaft to Weft, and from Weft to Eaft , and that in 
great waves : Which he endeavors to evince by feveral arguments ; 
Thofe of Feroe call the Ebb and Flood, Eajl- and Wejlrfall -^ 
the Eafl'fall is that, which with its waves falls on the Eaft of JSfor- 
WAy; Wefi' fall thdit, when the Seafallsback to the Weft-part of 
Green-Und : The Eaft- fall making low water in F^'W, as falling to 
theEaftof and making there high water ^ bur the Weft- 
fall making high-water in Efm, becaufe when the Flood fallsback 
from the Weft of J\fonvay^ the waves arife and form themfelves 
higher and higher againft Fme^ according to the nature of waves ; 
which, he faith, appears by this, that at the Eaft of Feroe the water 
rifes but three fathoms, but at the Weft, feven ; the diftance being 
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