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 PORTS. Point Lookout, Md Mean luni- tidal in- terval. Rise and fall, pring tidei. Rise and fall, neap tides. 12 58' 17 4 18 8 18 59 20 10 14 87 16 54 12 58 7 4 7 26 726 7 19 9. 6 7 56 716 7 26 7 8 7 20 8 13 733 748 7 53 7 28 8 21 8 34 8 23 8 40 9 80 9 56 11 21 13 15 13 88 9 38 9 39 9 25 10 8 10 22 10 37 12 6 13 40 14 10 12 36 11 17 12 2 11 26 12 42 12 83 8 49 4 46 4 50 feet. 1-9 1-0 1-8 1-5 8-4 8-0 8-4 1-9 2-2 3-3 5-0 5-5 8-1 4-7 5-7 6-0 7-4 8-0 7-6 7'8 8-2 6-7 5-5 4-9 1-8 2-2 2-0 1-5 1-5 1-8 8-2 2-9 5-0 4-7 5-1 4-8 4-8 4-4 4-8 5-2 5-1 7-3 4-7 5'5 6-8 7-4 7-4 5-5 11-1 6-6 feet. 0-7 0-8 0-8 0-9 2-6 2-5 2-3 1-3 1-8 2-2 3-4 8-8 2-2 2-7 8-7 4-1 4-4 5-9 5-5 6-4 5-4 . 5-8 8-7 3-6 1-2 1-3 0-6 0-9 0-6 1-0 1-6 1-4 2-3 2-2 2-8 2'4 2-5 2-8 2-8 4-1 8-7 4-9 2-7 8-5 8-7 4-6 4-8 4-0 7-2 4-8 Annapolis, "... Bodkin light, " Washington, D. C James river (City Point), Va Richmond, " Tappahannock, " Hatteras inlet, N. C Beaufort, " Bald Head, " Smithville, " Georgetown entrance, 8. C BulPs island bay, " Charleston, " St. Helena sound, " Fort Pulaski, Ga Savannah, " St. Simon's ". Fort Clinch, Fla St. John's river, Fla St Augustine " Cape Florida, " ... Indian Key, " Sand Key, " Key West, " .. Tortugas, " ... Tampa bay (Egmont Kev), Fla Cedar Keys (Depot Key), " .... St. Mark's, " WESTEKN COAST. San Diego, Cal San Pedro, " San Luis Obispo " Monterey, " South Farallone, " San Francisco, " Mare island, " Benicia, " Eavenswood, " Bodega " Humboldt bay, " Port Orford, Oregon Astoria " Nee-ah harbor, Washington territory Port Townshend, Steilacoom, Semi-ah-moo bay, " TIDE TABLE FOR SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PORTS AND HEADLANDS OF THE WORLD, Giving the vulgar establishment or time of high water at full and change, and the rise and fall or whole range at spring and neap tides, except for the United States. PLACES. Time of H. W. at full and change. Range at spring tides. Range at neap tides. EAST COAST OF ATLANTIC OCEAN. Simon's bay, Cape of Good Hope. . . St. Helena 'island h. m. 2 44 3 11 feet. ? feet. 2i li St. Paul de Loanda, Africa 4 80 5 Sierra Leone " 7 55 8 Cape Verd. " Ceuta, straits of Gibraltar Gibraltar old mole 7 45 2 6 2 20 5 8t 8* "it Fayal Azores 11 45 4 Cape Finisterre, Portugal. 3 15 6 50 14 11* Brest, ". 3 47 19 4 St. Malo, " 6 5 85 17 7 49 17 el Havre, " 9 51 22 14 Calais " 11 49 19i Hi Dover, England Portsmouth dockyard, England Plymouth breakwater, " 11 12 11 41 5 37 ISi in Hi i PLACES. Time of H. W. at full and change. Range at .pring tides. Range at neap tides. EAST COAST OF ATLANTIC OCEAN. Scilly isles, St. Agnes, England.. . . Bristol (King road), Liverpool, " Glasgow, Scotland Stromness, u h. m. 480 6 65 11 28 1 25 9 1 2 17 6 29 9 15 11 40 1 57 4 4 58 11 12 485 12 25 6 80 11 83 12 480 8 50 9 80 3 7"0 11 feet. 16 44 26 9 10 12 % 6 58 9 12* 12-14 14i 19 4 9* 5* 8 40 4 8-10 1 V 9 23 50 6 18 7 8 11 12 ""& 19 12-17 4 2 8* 1C* 10 2 8 15 f 2 86-42 9 5 4 11 15-22 T feet. 8 22 ' 5 8 9 '? 1CJ f ,-?

3 J* 'is' 2 '"* "4 17 24 2 8 "4 "i" "5" "5" "si wo" 6* Aberdeen, " Leith, Hull, England Yarmouth roads, England. . Margate, London docks, " Cape Clear, Ireland Cork (Penrose quay), Ireland. . . Dublin bar, " Galway, .... Ostend, Belgium Texel (outside shoals), Holland. . . Helgoland, Elbe entrance Loffoden islands, Norway Keret's point, gulf of Archangel WEST COAST OF ATLANTIC OCEAN. Cape Horn islands, South America. Santa Cruz river, " " Eio Janeiro, " " Cape St. Eoque, " " Maranham, Cartagena, Cape St. Antonio, Cuba Bermudas, dockyard 7 14 9 Vera Cruz, Mexico Cape Sable, Nova Scotia St. John's, New Brunswick Sackville, " " 8 80 11 23 11 48 749 6 88 780 11 11 50 4 15 12 30 2 4 11 40 1 818 784 10 9 45 10 10 12 28 8 88 1 20 noon 4 880 4 40 9 82 5 47 7 8 23 8 15 9 40 Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia Quebec, Canada St. John's, Newfoundland Upernavik, Greenland Van Eensselaer bay, Greenland INDIAN OCEAN AND WEST COAST OF PACIFIC. Mozambique harbor, Africa Bab-el-Mandeb, Bed sea Suez bay, head of gulf, Ked sea Surat Hindostan Bombay, dockyard, Hindostan Maldives, Adou atoll Trincomalee harbor, Ceylon Madras road, Hindostan Western entrance to Hoogly river. Batavia Java Canton river (entrance), China Yangtse-kiang (entrance), China. . . Nagasaki bav Japan Sydney, Australia Tahiti or Otaheite island Honolulu, Sandwich islands EAST COAST OF PACIFIC OCEAN. Cape Virgin, strait of Magellan Valparaiso Chili Panama road, Colombia Port la Union, gulf of Fonseca A study of the preceding tables, with the aid of a map, will develop many interesting facts with regard to the propagation of the tide wave and the effect of the configuration of the coasts on the time and height of the tides. It will be seen, for example, that high water occurs nearly at the same time at the head- lands of the great middle and eastern bays of