Miscellanea Curiosa.

contrary tendency to descent by their own Gravity, will no longer regard this as a material Obstacle, but will rather conclude, that the great Analogy there is between the rising and falling of the Water upon the Flux and Reflux of the Sea, and this of the accumulating and extenuating the Air, is a great Argument for the Truth of this Hypothesis: For as the Sea over against the Coast of Essex, rises and swells by the meeting of the two contrary Tides of Flood, (whereof the one comes from the S. W. along the Channel of England, and the other from the North); and on the contrary sinks below its Level upon the