and the Inhabitants livelyhood depending moft on grazing, or 
feedingSheep; they are ( as you may believe they have reafon 
to be) very vigilant and obfervant,at what times they are moft 
in danger of having their Lands drowned. And I find them ge- 
nerally agreed, by their conftant Obfervations , ( and Experi- 
ence dearly bought ) that their times of danger are about the 
beginning of February and of November: that is, at thofe Spring 
Tides which happen near thofe times } to which they give the 
names of Candlcmafs -fir earn and Adhalknd-ftream: And if they 
fcape thofe Spring-tides ) they apprehend themfelves out of 
D anger for the reft of the year. And as for March and Septem- 
ber (the two /Equinoxes) they are as little folicitous of them, as of 
any other part of the year- 
This, I confefs,! much wondred at, when I firft heard it ; and 
fufpedted it to be but a miftake of him,that firft told me, though 
he were indeed a perfon not likely fo to be miftaken, in a thing 
wherein he was fo much concerned ; But I foon found , that it 
was not onely his, but a generalobfervation of others too ; both 
there,and ellewhere along the Sea coaft. And though they did 
not pretend to know any reafon of it, ( nor fo much as to en- 
quire afcer it ; ) Yet none made doubt of it i but would father 
laugh at any that fliouldtalk of March and September , as being 
the dangerous times. And fince that time,I have my felf very 
frequently obferved ( both at London and elfewhere , as I have 
had occafion ) that in thofe months of February and November , 
(efpecially November) the Tides have run much higher, than at 
other times : Though I confefs, I have not been fo diligent to fet 
down thofe Obfervations, as I fliould have done. Yet this I do 
particularly very well remember, that in November 1 6 60. (the 
fame year that his Majefty returned ) having occafion to go by 
Coach from the Strand to Weftminfter , I found the Water fo 
high in the middle of Ktng-ftreet , that it came up, not onely to 
the Soots, but into the #ody of the Coach > and the P allace-yard 
(all fave a little place near the Weft-End) overflow’d; as like- 
wife the Market-place ; and many other places ; and their Cel- 
lars generally filled up with Water. And in November laft, 1 66 f . 
it may yet be very well remembred, what very high Tides there 
werc,noc onely on the Coafts of England, (where much hurt was 
