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before ; which he explains by faying, that though it 
performed its Flux and Reflux in little more than a 
Minute (which by the way is quicker than before) 
yet it would Hand at the Low-Water Mark two or 
three Minutes ; which I fuppofe he calls flowing 
flower than before, becaufe the Space of Time between 
the End of the Ebb and the Beginning of the fucceed- 
ing Flux was longer. I had never read this Account 
’till lately ; long fince my own Obfervations were made $ 
but, if we fuppofe the Doftor to have made his Obfer- 
vations fomewhat nearer the Time when the Fountain 
was to ceafe ebbing and flowing, than I made mine, our 
Obfervations will perhaps exa&ly agree : The Time of 
the Flux and Reflux being flK>rter,the Time of the Paufe 
longer, but the whole Time of the Flux, Reflux, and 
Paufe taken together being fhorter by his Account than 
by my own. He fays, that he found it by his Watch 
to flow and ebb fixteen Times in an Hour : I do not fup- 
pofe that he made a whole Hour's Obfervations, which 
mull have (hewn him a Difference in the Times of 
the Reciprocations that he did not perceive ; buthav- 
ing obferved,that one Reciprocation, or a Flux, Reflux, 
and Paufe, took up about the Space of four Minutes, 
he from thence computed, as I imagine, that there 
would be fixteen in an Hour, prefuming that there was 
no Alteration in the Times. In this fenfel would un- 
derftand him, when he adds, that he was informed it 
fotnetimes flowed twenty Times in an Hour. For, ac- 
cording to his Obfervations, it flowed at the rate of 
fixteen Times in an Hour ; according to my own Ob- . 
fervations, at the rate of twelve Times in an Hour ; 
perhaps before my Obfervations at a lefsRate, and af- 
ter his at a greater : So that in the whole Hour, accord- 
ing to the feveral Rates taken together, it may flow 
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