...every ten years during the present century. CHAPTER XIII. PHILOSOPHY Of THE TIDES. 596. TIDES are the alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, at regular intervals. Flood tide is when the waters ore rising ; and ebb tide, when they are fatting. The highest and lowest...

...and prevail among all the secondaries. CHAPTER VIII. NATURE AND CAUSE OF TIDES. 276. TIDES are the alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, at regular intervals, flood tide is when the waters are rising; and ebb tide, when they are 275. What said of Neptune's secondaries...

...yeari, during the present century. CHAPTER XIII. PHILOSOPHY OF THE TIDES. 596. TIDES are the alteruate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, at regular intervals. Flood tide is when the waters are rising ; and ebb tide, when they are falling. The highest and lowest...

...of 30 miles. The error of the best tables now in use will rarely exceed 7 or 8 seconds. TIDES. 194. The tides are an alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean.'at regular intervals. They have a maximum and a minimam twice a day, twice a month, and twice...

...of 30 miles. The error of the best tables now in use will rarely exceed 7 or 8 seconds. TIDES. 194. The tides are an alternate rising and falling of the...tide, the maximum is called High tide, and the minimum Law tide. The maximum for the month is called Spring tide, and the minimum Neap tide,. The rising of...

...every ten ye art during the present century. CHAPTER XIII. PHILOSOPHY OF THE TIDES. 596. TIDES are the alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, at regular intervals. Flood tide is when the waters are rising ; and ebb tide, when they are falling. The highest and lowest...

...Tell the causes of the tides, and why they rise and fall every twenty-four hours? CN 8. Answer. — The tides are an alternate rising and falling of the...called spring tide and the minimum neap tide. The cause of the tides is the unequal attraction of the sun and the moon upon the earth. The liquid portions...

...are sure to notice it, and are ready to tell me before the word is finished." • CAUSES OF TIDES. "The tides are an alternate rising and falling of...intervals. They have a maximum and a minimum twice a i day, twice a month, and twice a year. Of the daily tide, the maximum is called High tide, and the...

...believed, of a singular phenomenon observable in our largest bodies of water. We refer to the TIDES, which are an alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, at regular intervals. These have their greatest and least elevation twice a day, and are called High and Low Tides ; twice...

...mouth of the Mississippi is farther from the centre of the earth than is its source. Tides are the alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean at regular periods; that is, twice every twenty-five hours, nearly. Other things being equal, tides are higher...