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Bay we found it come from the Northward but with a much slower Motion than the Easterly Tide. Again on the East side of the Bay of Inlets we found the Flood to set Strong to the Westward as far as ^the opening of Broad sound but on the North side of that Sound the Flood come with ^a slow motion from the NW, and when at Anchor before Repulse Bay we found the flood to Come from the Northward. We need only admit the Flood Tide to come from the East or SE and then all these seeming contridections will be found to be conformable to reason and experience. It is well known that where there are deep Inlets, large Creeks &Ca, into low lands that it is not occasioned by Fresh water Rivers, there is a very great indraught of the Flood Tide, the direction of which will be determined according to the posision ^or direction of the Coasts which form's the entrance in to such Inlets, and this direction the Tide must follow let it be ever so contrary to their general Course out at Sea, and where the Tides are weak as they are in general upon this Coast, a Large Inlet will ^if I may so call it attract the Flood Tide,
Any one need only cast an Eye over the Chart to be made sencible of what I have advanced
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© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 300, 2004
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