between Fairleigh and the North Foreland. 227 
the opposite coast, with the wind from the north-eastward, so 
that she can lay her course on the larboard tack; the pilot 
will prefer getting under weigh at high water , on the Eng- 
lish coast, to take the ebb tide under his lee ; and if he can 
get half channel over during the ebb tide, or by the time of 
low water on the English side, he will find a flood tide from 
thence, setting along the opposite coast, which will also set 
under his lee for six hours longer, running in the same direc- 
tion as the ebb tide did on the English side of the channel ; 
and thus he will carry twelve hours tide with him ; whereas 
had he continued on either side, he would have had a regu- 
lar six hours tide each way ; with this difference, that he 
would always have the tide setting in opposite directions 
on the one side, to what it would be on the other. That is ; if 
the flood tide was setting to the westward on the English side, 
the flood tide would, at the same time set to the eastward on 
the Dutch side. Hence were a ship to sail, as above stated, 
with the wind so that she could lay her course on the star- 
board tack , she ought to get under weigh at low water on the 
English side, by which she would be able to carry twelve 
hours tide again under her lee, suppposing her to reach the 
meeting of the tides at high water. 
Every person who has been at Spithead may have observed, 
that the water rises there, and every where within the Isle of 
Wight, as far as Hurst Castle, for more than three hours 
after it is high water at the Owers, Dunnose, and every 
where without the Wight, and when the ebb tide has, of course, 
made to the westward ; and that it is not high water at 
Spithead, Portsmouth Harbour, Southampton River, or any 
where within the Wight, until the ebb tide has run that time. 
