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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. and water, was a great deal of drift-wood thrown afhore; 
1 a part of which we had to remove, to come at the water. It 
often happened, that large pieces or trees, which we had re¬ 
moved in the day, out of the reach of the then high-water, 
were found, the next morning, floated again in our way; 
and all our fpouts, for conveying down the water, thrown 
out of their places, which were immoveable during the 
day-tides. We alfo found, that wood, which we had fplit 
up for fuel, and had depofited beyond the reach of the day- 
tide, floated away during the night. Some of thefe circum- 
ftances happened every night or morning, for three or four 
days in the height of the fpring-tides ; during which time 
we were obliged to attend every morning-tide, to remove 
the large logs out of the way of watering. 
I cannot fay, whether the flood-tide falls into the Sound 
from the North Weft, South Weft, or South Eaft. I think 
it does not come from the laft quarter; but this is only 
conjecture, founded upon the following obfervations : The 
South Eaft gales, which we had in the Sound, were fo far 
from increafing the rife of the tide, that they rather dimi- 
nifhed it; which would hardly have happened, if the flood 
and wind had been in the fame direction. 
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