fwhat I conjedure to be from the fame caufes)the greateft la* 
equalities of the natural Days , happening in January and OBo. 
her. But this though I can admit, yet (till I am fure of the mat* 
ter of Fad) I do not build upon. And fince it hath hitherto 
been the cuftome to fpeak with that laxnefs of expreffiou ; af- 
figning the times of New-mqon, Ful'I-moon,and Quadratures, 
with the Moons comming to South, for , what is neer thofe 
times.: I did not think myfelf obliged in my comjedural Hy- 
pothefis (while it is yet but a Candidate ) to fpeak more nicely. 
If the Hypothefis for the maine of it be found Rational • the 
Niceties of it are to be adjufted, in time , from particular Ob- 
fervation. 
Having thus givemyou Tome Aufwers to the Qbjedions you 
fighifie to ha^e been made by feveral perfons to my Hypothefis, 
and that in the fame order your Paper prefents them to me : I 
{hall next give you fome account of the two Books , which you 
advifedmeto confultj fo far as feems neceffary to this bufi- 
nefs : Which^upon your intimation^ have fince perufed, though 
before I had not. 
And .firft,as to that of Ifaac VoJJlus , De motu Marium 3 Ven- 
isra^iiThough I do notconcur with him in his Hypothefis; That 
all the Great motions of the Seas,Scc. fhould arifeonely from fo 
/mall a warming of the water as to raife it( where moft of all) mt a 
Foot in perpendicular, (as in his 12 th Chapters) Or that there 
is no other connexion between the Moons motion, and the 
Tydes men/lrml period, than a cafual Synchronifm (which feems 
to be the dodrine of his r 6tb and 1 8 th Chapters}) Befide ma- 
ny other things in his Philofophy, which I cannot allow : Yet I 
am well enough pleafed with what is Hiftorical in it, of the 
matter of Fad : Efpecially if I may be fecure,that he is therein 
accurate and candid, not wrefting the Phenomena to his own 
purpofe. But I find nothing in it, which doth induce me to vary 
from my Hypothefis For , granting his Hiftoricals to be all 
true ; the account of the conftant Current of the Sea Weft- 
ward, and of the conftant EafternBlafts, See. within theTrs- 
pic ks ) is much more plaufibly , and (I fuppofe) truly rendered 
by GaiiUo long fince, from the Earths Diurnal motion : (which, 
neare the Mqmtor. deferibing a greater Circle, than nearer the 
Poles, 
