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A VOYAGE TO 
[East Coast. 
1802. 
August. 
at the neaps and springs, from nine to fourteen feet, and high water 
to take place nine hours and a half after the moon's passage over and 
under the meridian ; but the morning’s tide fell two or three feet 
short of that at night. The set past the ship was greatest at the 
last quarter of the flood and first of the ebb, when it ran two-and- 
half knots, and turned very suddenly. In the offing, the flood came 
from the eastward, at the rate of one mile per hour. 
