from thence are easily drawn into greater Drops of Rain; to which 'tis possible and not improbable, that some sort of Saline or Angular Particles of Terrestrial Vapour being immix'd with the Aqueous, which I take to be Bubbles, may cut or break their Skins or Coats, and so contribute to their more speedy Condensation into Rain.
The True Theory of the Tides, extracted from that admired Treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton , Intitled, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ; Being a Discourse presented with that Book to the late King James , by Mr. Edmund Halley .
IT may, perhaps, seem strange, that this Paper, being no other than a particular Account of a Book long since published, should now appear here; but the Desires of several honourable Persons, which could not be withstood, have obliged us to insert it here, for the sake of such, who being less knowing in Mathematical Matters, and therefore not daring to adventure on the Author himself, are notwithstanding, very curious to be inform'd of the Causes of Things; particularly of so general and extraordinary Phænomena, as are those of the Tides. Now this Paper having been drawn up for the late King James*'s Use, (in whose Reign the Book was publish'd)