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more than a mile broad, the length running from Eaft to Weft, as 
the Frith lyes. At the Eaft end of this Jftand, where I ftayed fome 
3 6 , or 1 7. dayes, I obferved a very ftrange Reciprocation of the 
Flux and Re- flux of the Sea, and heard of another, no lefs re- 
markable. 
Upon the Weft fide of the Long l ft and, the Tides, which came 
from the South. weft , run along the Coaft, Northward , fo that 
during the ordinary courfe of the Tides, the Flood runs Eaft in 
the Frith , where Berner ay lyes, and the Ebb Weft. And thus the 
Sea ebbs and flows orderly, fome 4. days before the fuU Floon, 
and change , and as long after (the ordinary Spring-tides riling 
fome 14. or 1 y. foot upright, and all the reft proportionably, as 
in other places ) jBut afterwards, fome 4. days before the Quar- 
termoonS) and as long after, there is conftantly a great and An- 
gular variation . For then , ( a Southerly Moon making there the 
full Sea) the courfe of the Tide being Eaftward, when it begins 
to flow, which is about 9-f of the Clock, not onely con- 
nues fo till about 3-f in the afternoon, that it be high water, but, 
after ft begins to ebb 5 the Current runs on ftill Eaftward, d uring 
the whole Ebbsfo that it runs Eaftward 1 2 hours together,that is, 
all day long, from about 9-f in the morning, til about 9-f at night. 
But then, when the night-Tide begins to flow,the Current turns, 
and runs Weflrvard all night, during both Floud & Ebb^for fome 
1 2. hours more, as it did Eaftward the day before. And thus the 
Reciprocations continue,one Floud and Ebb,running 1 2. hours 
Eaftward, and another twelve hours Weftward, till 4. days before 
the New and fW/Moomand then they refume their ordinary re- 
gular courfe as before, running Eafl^ during the fix hours of 
Floud, and Weft, during the fix of Ebb. And this I obferved 
corioufly, during my abode upon the place, which was in the 
Moneth of duguft^ as I remember. 
But the Gentleman, to whom the lfiandbe\ongs at prefent,and 
divers of his Brothers and Friends, knowing and difcreet per- 
fons, and expert in all fuch parts of Sea»matters, as other JJlan- 
ders commonly are, though I Ihrewdly fufpetfted their skill in: 
Tides, when I had not yet feen what they told me, and I have: 
now related of thefe irregular Courfes of the Tides, did moftl 
confidently allure me, and fo did every body I fpake with 
about : 
