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them inclofed for his lordfhip’s information: and am, 
with due refpe&s, 
S I R, 
Your mod: obedient fervant, 
Walter Taylor. 
To Philip Stephens, Efq; 
1756 
Feb. Woolwich- Yard, 25 Feb. 1756. 
Monday 9, wind S. frefh gale and cloudy, tides very 
irregular. 
Tuefday 10, S.W. frefh breeze with rain, ditto 
Wednefdayu. S.W. frefh breeze and frofty, ditto. 
Thurfday 12, S.W. blue hard and cloudy ; the night 
tide flowed about two feet ten inches higher 
than the morning: tide. 
O 
Friday 13. W.N.W. blew hard and cloudy; the 
night tide flowed about three feet higher than 
the morning-tide. 
Saturday 14, S.W. frefh gale and cloudy; tides more 
regular. 
Sunday iy, W. frefh breeze and cloudy, ditto. 
Monday 16, As it drew near the time for launching 
his majefty’s fhip Royal-George at this yard, 
I took more notice, and obferved, that this 
day we had the wind at W. and W. by N. a 
ftrong gale, and the ebb-tide drained well 
out. On the flood, we had a good fpring- 
tide. 
Tuefday 17, The wind flew to W. S.W. a flronggale, 
'which drained the ebb-tide moreconflde- 
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