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LETTER. 
S I R, 
Head Feb. 26, TN obedience to my lord Anfon’s com- 
1756 Jl niands communicated to me by your 
letter of the twenty- firft, I herewith ftranfmit you 
the bed: accounts I could colled, together with my 
own obfervations on the tides at this place from the 
ninth to the nineteenth inftant, and beg leave to ob- 
ferve to you, that the day tide on the thirteenth, 
inftant was very remarkable ; for it ebb’d no more 
than two feet and a half for four hours after high 
water, when it was obferved to flow again for a few 
minutes ; then ebb’d again, but fo little, that at low 
water, we had feven feet water at the ftern of the 
dock, which is five feet more than was ever known 
to be. It blew very hard in the morning on the flood, 
with the wind to the fouthward of the weft, and on 
the ebb in the afternoon the wind abated and veered 
to the north-weft, to which I then, in part, attri- 
buted this phenomenon, as a northerly wind forces 
water into this river, and always makes high tides, 
and a foutherly wind the contrary. 
Sheernefs, Feb. 23, 
1756. 
Your moft obedient and 
raoft humble fervant, 
Michael Monarty. 
To Philip Stephens, Efq; 
Vol. 49. Xx x 
Year 
