TIDAL TRICKS.
Most people imagine the* the ebb and fiiivv of tides '--an easily be fpie- | costed, and that there is little or no variation in their movements. This i however, is by no means the ease, jr Often tides are as erratic as the tveataier its.-lf. The Bristol Channel for «:• ample, is notorious among sailors for its extraordinarily high spring tides. Frequently these rise more than 40 feet. . ... other parts of the coast mere is no change in the tide, the rise and fall being to all intents and purposes existent. This is the ease oh the ?r«sh • const, near Arkiow, and it has been .uggestod that at' this I-artbruiar pom: the n -I »tv,s dmi i. a r ' 1 neighbouring pa«s pf !i, ‘' ' '.las. mingle. thus neuuaiising. m- :t were, she motion of the sea.'The same pceu]aritv has been observed nom time to time' in the Strait* hwne I 'foxt’a Sea tides also display uncertain's- ',£ ;v.ovenv-iii. liloVig the Hampshire coast Hie tides are double. At point the tide rises for seven hours. 0 5,i iS for an hour and a hail, and then rises again. This is known as ••'second ride.’ 5
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Otaki Mail, 20 August 1923, Page 4
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