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Portrait of James Rennell James Rennell Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1833)

In addition to these facts, which are of comparatively recent occurrence, the author finds that the generally observed and well-known flow of the tides on the west of Scilly, cannot well be accounted for but by the supposition of a current setting in from the southward, which causes the flood tide to run nine hours northward, while the ebb in the opposite direction lasts only three hours.
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