as one, that be&longs;ides your being born, and having, for a long <lb/>
time, dwelt in <emph type="italics"/>Venice,<emph.end type="italics"/> where the Tides are very notable for their <lb/>
greatne&longs;&longs;e, have al&longs;o &longs;ailed into <emph type="italics"/>Syria,<emph.end type="italics"/> and, as an ingenuous and <lb/>
apprehen&longs;ive wit, mu&longs;t needs have made many Ob&longs;ervations up <lb/>
on this &longs;ubject: whereas I, that could onely for a time, and that <lb/>
very &longs;hort, ob&longs;erve what happened in the&longs;e extream parts of the <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Adriatick<emph.end type="italics"/> Gulph, and in our Seas below about the <emph type="italics"/>Tyrrhene<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
&longs;hores, mu&longs;t needs take many things upon the relation of o <lb/>
thers, who, for the mo&longs;t part, not very well agreeing, and con <lb/>
&longs;equently being very uncertain, contribute more of confu&longs;ion <lb/>
than confirmation to our &longs;peculations. </s><s>Neverthele&longs;&longs;e, from tho&longs;e <lb/>
that we are &longs;ure of, and which are the principal, I think I am a <lb/>
ble to attain to the true and primary cau&longs;es; not that I pretend <lb/>
to be able to produce all the proper and adequate rea&longs;ons of <lb/>
tho&longs;e effects that are new unto me, and which con&longs;equently I <lb/>
could never have thought upon. </s><s>And that which I have to &longs;ay, <lb/>
I propo&longs;e only, as a key that openeth the door to a path never <lb/>
yet trodden by any, in certain hope, that &longs;ome wits more &longs;pecu <lb/>
lative than mine, will make a further progre&longs;&longs;e herin, and pene <lb/>
trate much farther than I &longs;hall have done in this my fir&longs;t Di&longs;co <lb/>
very: And although that in other Seas, remote from us, there may <lb/>
happen &longs;everal accidents, which do not happen in our Mediter <lb/>
ranean Sea, yet doth not this invalidate the rea&longs;on and cau&longs;e that <lb/>
I &longs;hall produce, if &longs;o be that it veri&longs;ie and fully re&longs;olve the ac <lb/>
cidents which evene in our Sea: for that in conclu&longs;ion there can <lb/>
be but one true and primary cau&longs;e of the effects that are of the <lb/>
&longs;ame kind. </s><s>I will relate unto you, therefore, the effects that I <lb/>
know to be true, and a&longs;&longs;igne the cau&longs;es thereof that I think <lb/>
to be true, and you al&longs;o, Gentlemen, &longs;hall produce &longs;uch <lb/>
others as are known to you, be&longs;ides mine, and then we will <lb/>
try whether the cau&longs;e, by me alledged, may &longs;atisfie them <lb/>
al&longs;o.</s>

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<s><margin.target id="marg730"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Three Periods <lb/>
of ebbings and <lb/>
flowings, diurnal, <lb/>
monethly, and an <lb/>
nual.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>I therefore affirm the periods that are ob&longs;erved in the fluxes <lb/>
and refluxes of the Sea-waters to be three: the fir&longs;t and princi <lb/>
pal is this great and mo&longs;t obvious one; namely, the diurnal, accor <lb/>
ding to which the intervals of &longs;ome hours with the waters flow and <lb/>
ebbe; and the&longs;e intervals are, for the mo&longs;t part, in the Mediter <lb/>
rane from &longs;ix hours to &longs;ix hours, or thereabouts, that is, they for <lb/>
&longs;ix hours flow, and for &longs;ix hours ebbe. </s><s>The &longs;econd period is <lb/>
monethly, and it &longs;eemes to take its origen from the motion of <lb/>
the Moon, not that it introduceth other motions, but only al <lb/>
tereth the greatne&longs;&longs;e of tho&longs;e before mentioned, with a notable <lb/>
difference, according as it &longs;hall wax or wane, or come to the <lb/>
Quadrature with the Sun. </s><s>The third Period is annual, and is <lb/>
&longs;een to depend on the Sunne, and onely altereth the diurnal