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feamen, but not confirmed by any thing which had yet 
fallen under my obfervation, that the night-tide rifes 
higher than the day-tide. We prepared, however, 
for the event, which exceeded our mod: fanguine ex- 
pectations; for, about 20 minutes after 10 o’clock 
in the evening, which was a full hour before high- 
water, the fhip floated. At this time the heads of rocks, 
which on the preceding tide were, at leaft, a foot above 
water, were wholly covered. I was fully fatisfied with 
the truth of the remark, after getting into the river, 
where we remained from the 17 th of June till the 
4th of Augufl, repairing the damage the fhip had re- 
ceived. As this was to be done with the afliflance of the 
tides, it led me to make the following obfervations, which 
upon any other lefs important occaflon might have 
efcaped my notice. 
The times of high-water on the full and change days 
I found to be about a quarter after nine; the evening- 
tide, at the height of the fpring, to rife nine feet perpen- 
dicular, the morning-tide fcarce feven; and the low- 
water preceding the higheft or evening-tide, to fall or 
recede conflderably lower than the one preceding the 
morning-tide. This difference in the rife and fall of the 
tide was uniformly the fame on each of the three fprings 
which happened while w T e lay in the place, and was ap- 
parent for about fix or feven days; that is, foi about 
three days before and after the full or change of the 
Moon. During the neep, the tide was very inconfl- 
derable, and if thtre was any difference between the rife 
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