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times j and while the current ruflied up at pne fide 
of the harbour, it poured down with equal violence 
at the other. A vefTel, that lay all this time in the 
pool, did not fcem'to be any ways affeded j nor was 
the violence of the currents much perceived in the 
deeper parts of the harbour, but raged with moft 
violence on the flats. The bottom of the harbour, 
which is all a flab, was much altered, the mud be- 
ing wafhed from fome places, and depofited in others. 
The Reverend Mr. Keef fays, the perpendicular rife 
of the water at his quay was five feet and a half, as 
he meafured it, and I am told it was much higher 
at the market-quay, which it overflowed, and poured 
into the market-place, as a gentleman who was pre- 
fent affures me ; and alfo fays, that it came with 
fuch rapidity, that fome men, who were on the quay 
immediately, on the firfl: rife of the water, ran off, 
but could not do it with expedition enough to pre- 
vent their being overtaken, and up to the knees. The 
agitations of the water were communicated fome 
miles up the river, but, as in the harbour, were 
moflly perceivable in the flialloweft places. The 
fucceffive rifings and fallings of the water continued 
about ten minutes, as nearly as I could judge, not 
having particularly attended to this circumftance, and 
then the tide returned to its natural coufe. Between 
fix and feven in the evening I faw the water rife 
again, tho’ not with as great violence as the former 
time ; and I am told it continued its alternate ebbs 
and flows till three in the morning. By different ac- 
counts received here the water was affeded in the 
fame manner along the coaft, to the weftward of 
this harbour, and it is reported, that, about nine 
o’clock 
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