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During the time of the water flowing, the flrength 
of the current going down was greatly abated, al- 
moft to a flack ; the water below the fterlings was 
almofl on a level with that above j by which I con- 
jecture, that the water flowed near three feet perpen- 
dicular. My boat of nine tuns burden being loaded, 
and drawing near two feet water, being put off into 
the ftream, I went down to the Hermitage, where 
another of my fervants was loading a lighter of 
hemp, and obferved as I went along, that the water 
began to ebb from the fhore. Having flayed there 
about half an hour, to give the neceflary directions 
to my fervants, I went to take a walk ; for which I 
am extremely forry, as I mifled obferving with due 
attention this extraordinary variation. All my fer- 
vants agree, that by their obfervations, though 
not over exaCt, when the water had only ebbed 
about two feet, it flowed again to the fame height as 
before. 
One John Hare, a waterman, told me, that as 
he was going in his boat to Woolwich, to his 
great furprife he met the flood in Greenwich-reach, 
and afterwards to Bugby’s-hole, and got to Wool- 
wich a confiderable time before low water ; which 
intirely agrees with what my fervants and other wa- 
termen who were at work remarked, that it flowed 
twice in the time of ebb, as it ought to have done, 
had it been regular 5 and had it been regular, it would 
have ebb’d till near nine that evening; inflead of 
which the real flood came about a quarter before fe- 
ven, and continued flowing till one after midnight, 
without any apparent current, till twelve, which 
prevented my fervants, and partner with them, bring- 
