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for some Moments: Bat as this Reinforcement of Life, convey’d to tKeHeart, and running into the Veins, soon flips out, so also this new Vigorpaflcth away quickly.

1 As chere is no Reason to Despair of finding out such Medicines, or Aliments,as are proper to Strengthen the Coats and Membranes of the Veß'els, so asthat chey may at all times retain the Fiery and Sfintuous Corpuscles of theBlood, as well as in the Time of Touth ; We may also hope to he enabled toMaintain the Blood in a condition always to furnith alike, as in our Vigo-rous Age, for all the Fundions of Life: The Engine of ourBody being.notunlikefoaC bymifFs Furnace, which at first well Retaining the Fleat > is.veryproper for the Operations of Art; bat at lad, Chinks and Crevices beingmade thereu^ it ceascs to be so, the Um getting away through them,what Fire soever you kindle therein.

VI. Having some Months sincc entertain’d a Suspicion, that the Causis of .s^MotiomofTtdes at Sea do also continually Exert their Power in other places, though BiltbT’ "an™'the Effects thereof may not be so fensibly pcrceived on the Solid as the

Fluid parts of this Terraqueous Globe ; I took this Method to examine it.

First, Idividedthe into four Senaries of Hours : The Firfi con- ,ural Dj r- h

iisted of z Hours betöre the S out hing of the Moon and 3 afcer ; the Second of 8» j.

the <5 Hours following; and so the zd, and 41h, contain'd the tworemain-

ing Quarters- of theNatural Day. I next betook my solf to observe Births

and Deatbs, in our own Kind, as also of other Species of Animals, whe-

ther they feil out indifferently in any of these 4 Senaries: And 1 found none

that were Born or Dfd a NaturalDeath in the First and yl Senaries, which

I take liberty to call first and second Ttdes , but every one either in the second

or 4 -tb Senaries, which I call first and 2 d Ebbs. I then proceeded tomake Ob-

servations in the Motions of Dsfeafes, which I could the heiter do, because I

had some in my Family Visited with Agues; Here I found that the Tumult

of the Fifa generally lafled all the Tsdmg Time, and then went off in gentlc

kindly Sweats in the Ebbs . I went on then to take notice of the Sex res non

naturales, and Alterations of the Weathtr , and such Accounts as I could meet

with of Earthquakes- and sundry other things: And I have yet met nothing

to Kinder me froin laying down this as a Maxim, That Motion, Vigour,

Abiion, Strength, &c. appear most and do best in the Ttding Senaries ; andthat Rest, Relaxation, Decay , Distblittion belongto the Ebbing Senaries.

VII. It is obferved on oür Sea Coast, with Relation to Mr. Vastchalh Ob- ve->n.j

servations, that Pcople that are Sick change at the Turns of the btide at the X'tX? 6-y uLPlace ; so as this Notion has obtain’d among all the Maritime Towns: Be.q. Allen

land, with us, it does not constantly hold ; which may thus be accounted "* p ' 66 *'for, (if the Moons Effect be Fluidity , as in Frosts is seen, a New- Moon everThawing, and is agreeable enough to a Neigbbouring Body of so Quick a

Motion) upon Dry Land the Moon may not have the fame Force, for I ob-ierve in Capt, James’s Voyage at Charkten-Jstand, the Fix’dneß of rhe Win-ter