the tides in the South Seas. 449 > 
of the tide in the day and in the night, it was not ob- 
fetved; but to the belt of my recolleftion none was per- 
cept* e. Excepting two or three mornings, when we 
had a land-breeze for a few hours, we had the winds from 
no other direaion than S.E., which is the fame as this 
pan ot the coaft, and from which quarter 1 judged the 
flood-ttde came. The wind, for the moft part, blew a 
bnfk gale, and rather ftronger during the day than the 
mg it. How far this laft circumftance might affeft the 
evening-tide, I foall not pretend to determine ; nor can I 
affign any other caufe for this difference in the rife and 
all of the tide, and therefore muff leave it to thofe who 
are better verfed in this fubjeft than, 
s i r, your, 8cc. 
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