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,f ci de, though the Tide of Flood runs a-t u * .y ec Tide of Ebb runs under-foot,b i. dose by the Ground. Sce Philojo-l y( TransaftioWy Numb. 158. p. 564.g j f le second is, an Experiment made in thea tick Sound : In one of the King’s Fregatsc ji e ^ sVc nt with their Pinnace into the mid-st 2 ^ ream ’ and were carried violently by, ? Current: soon after they funk a bucket

j lt h a large Cannon Bullet to a certainof water , which gave check to the. oats motion, and finking it still lower and^ le 6oat was driven a head te Wind-a i a [. against the upper Current, the Current.°‘t being not above four or five Fathom5 e Pand the lower the Bucket was let fall,lle y found the under-curreot the stronger.

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