XVI. Physical Geography: 955.

XVI. Physical Geography: 955.

955.

The ebb and flow of the tide (955-960).Where there is a larger quantity of water, there is a greater flow and ebb, but the contrary in narrow waters.

Look whether the sea is at its greatest flow when the moon is half way over our hemisphere [on the meridian].

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