motions, by making them different in the times of the Sol <lb/>
&longs;tices, as to greatne&longs;&longs;e, from what they are in the Equinoxes.</s>

<s>We will &longs;peak (in the fir&longs;t place, of the diurnal motion, as <lb/>
being the principal, and upon which the Moon and Sun &longs;eem to <lb/>
exerci&longs;e their power &longs;econdarily, in their monethly and annual </s>

<s><arrow.to.target n="marg731"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
alterations. </s><s>Three differences are ob&longs;ervable in the&longs;e horary <lb/>
mutations; for in &longs;ome places the waters ri&longs;e and fall, without <lb/>
making any progre&longs;&longs;ive motion; in others, without ri&longs;ing or fal <lb/>
ling they run one while towards the Ea&longs;t, and recur another <lb/>
while towards the We&longs;t; and in others they vary the heights <lb/>
and cour&longs;e al&longs;o, as happeneth here in <emph type="italics"/>Venice,<emph.end type="italics"/> where the Tides in <lb/>
coming in ri&longs;e, and in going out fall; and this they do in the ex <lb/>
termities of the lengths of Gulphs that di&longs;tend from We&longs;t to <lb/>
Ea&longs;t, and terminate in open &longs;hores, up along which &longs;hores the <lb/>
Tide at time of flood hath room to extend it &longs;elf: but if the <lb/>
courfe of the Tide were iutercepted by Cliffes and Banks of <lb/>
great height and &longs;teepne&longs;&longs;e, there it will flow and ebbe without <lb/>
any progre&longs;&longs;ive motion. </s><s>Again, it runs to and again, without <lb/>
changing height in the middle parts of the Mediterrane, as nota <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg732"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
bly happeneth in the ^{*} <emph type="italics"/>Faro de Me&longs;&longs;ina,<emph.end type="italics"/> between <emph type="italics"/>Scylla<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ca <lb/>
rybdis,<emph.end type="italics"/> where the Currents, by rea&longs;on of the narrowne&longs;&longs;e of <lb/>
the Channel, are very &longs;wift; but in the more open Seas, and <lb/>
about the I&longs;les that &longs;tand farther into the Mediterranean Sea, as <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg733"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
the <emph type="italics"/>Baleares, Cor&longs;ica, Sardignia, ^{*} Elba, Sicily<emph.end type="italics"/> towards the <emph type="italics"/>Affrican<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg734"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
Coa&longs;ts, <emph type="italics"/>Malta, ^{*} Candia, &c.<emph.end type="italics"/> the changes of watermark are <lb/>
very &longs;mall; but the currents indeed are very notable, and e&longs;pe <lb/>
cially when the Sea is pent between I&longs;lands, or between them <lb/>
and the Continent.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg731"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Varieties that <lb/>
happen in the diur <lb/>
nal period.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg732"></margin.target>* A Strait, &longs;o <lb/>
called.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg733"></margin.target>* Or Ilva.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg734"></margin.target>* Or Creta.</s>

<s>Now the&longs;e onely true and certain effects, were there no more <lb/>
to be ob&longs;erved, do, in my judgment, very probably per&longs;wade <lb/>
any man, that will contain him&longs;elf within the bounds of natu <lb/>
ral cau&longs;es, to grant the mobility of the Earth: for to make the <lb/>
ve&longs;&longs;el (as it may be called) of the Mediterrane &longs;tand &longs;till, and to <lb/>
make the water contained therein to do, as it doth, exceeds my <lb/>
imagination, and perhaps every mans el&longs;e, who will but pierce <lb/>
beyond the rinde in the&longs;e kind of inquiries.</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>The&longs;e accidents, <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> begin not now, they are <lb/>
mo&longs;t ancient, and have been ob&longs;erved by very many, and &longs;everal <lb/>
have attempted to a&longs;&longs;igne, &longs;ome one, &longs;ome another cau&longs;e for the <lb/>
&longs;ame: and there dwelleth not many miles from hence a famous <lb/>
Peripatetick, that alledgeth a cau&longs;e for the &longs;ame newly fi&longs;hed out <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg735"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
of a certain Text of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> not well under&longs;tood by his Ex <lb/>
po&longs;itors, from which Text he collecteth, that the true cau&longs;e of <lb/>
the&longs;e motions doth only proceed from the different profundities <lb/>
of Seas: for that the waters of greate&longs;t depth being greater in