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oppofite to that where I ftood, would fink, as that 
by me rofe, I ordered him to fignify to me, by call- 
ing out, when the water by him began to fink, and 
when to rife. 1 his he did, but to my great fur- 
prize I found, that, immediately after tlie water be- 
gan to rife at my end, J lieard his v'oice calling to 
me, that it began to rife with him ; and in the fame 
manner I heard, that it w'as finking at his end, foon 
after I perceived that it began to fink by me. He 
might ffand about ninety or a hundred yards from 
me. I lent a perfon to a pond juft below where J 
ftood, who called to me in the fame manner. Xhe 
water role and fell in that pond ; but though he ftood 
at the fouth-weft corner of that pond, as 1 did at the 
fouth-weft corner of the moat, it did not rife and 
fail by him in that pond, at the fame time as it rofe 
and fell by me in the moat, but lunk fometimes when 
the moat rofe, and rofe when the moat funk, as it 
feemed by his calling to me, the rifing and falling 
leeming to be quicker than in the moat, though but 
little : he might ftand about forty yards from me. 
I ftnt perfons to three other ponds, in all which the 
agitation was very confiderable. The fwells, that 
lucceedcd one another, were not equal, nor did they* 
incieafe or diminilh gradually j for fometimes, after 
a very great fwell, tlie next two or three would be 
Imall, and then again would come a very large one,. 
IbllowTd by one or two more as large, and then lefs . 
again. As I did not know when the water firft be- 
gan to move, I did not think it worth while to ob- 
ferve wnen it fhould be quiet again; but having ftood 
by tne moat a good while, I went away, and return- 
ing again in about half an hour’s time, found it per- 
fectly ftill. 
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