FOR THE wILMINoToNIAN.
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Remarks on Seasons, Tides, Winds, &c.


Having examined the table of high wa
ter for various parts of the world, find
similar effects in similar circumstances,
operating on all parts of the oceans thro'
the medium of projectile forces. of these
are combined the suns and moons atmos-
pheres, and the action Of gravity; each OF
these atmospheres | suppose to be posi-
lively and sometimes highly charged with
electric or galvanic fluids. sufficient at all


times to repel or keep each other at pro-


per distances, as is the case with two mag


nets or pieces Of iron charged with mag


netlc virtue. These instead of attracting


each other by reason of their affinity, as we


might suppose, are known to repel each


other force to force-and though kon


the body of the moon. distinct from her at


mosphere, and the body of the earth like


wise, are furnished with what are termed


poles, each revolving around their own re-


spectively; the earth daily, the moon


monthly. Yet am far from believing that


this polarity (deemed attraction) is the


cause of their motion, or of the flowing and


ebbing of the tides, or of the winds blow


ing, or of the rains descending; for as far


as experiments have hitherto been made,


the Office of attraction (worthy and admi.


rable as it isl appears mostly to be, that OF


drawing atoms and negative bodies into its


keeping, and which, when once obtained


become stedfast, immovable and insepara.


BILE, unless and until power of greater
strength even than that OF expansion, un
ties the link and causes separation Of the
parts.


have frequently been astonished at tn,
arrangement Of ideas in men of the great
est talents lin some respects) that thu
: world has ever produced, in striving by ;
: compound theory. of form without matter
to reconcile the principles of attraction il
= such manner as to set worlds in motor
|, !. and continue to keep them so. have n,
0 objection whatever to attraction assistin.
a in laying, or rather in cementing the grea
4 arches of worlds, if il is the will and goot


pleasure of the Great Architect. Yet afte
worlds are formed and in the full tide o
: operation, cannot believe that the Office
of attraction is much exercised in pulling
I them to pieces again, until they are want
J. ed to supply other portions where they may
be more needed. Yet agreeabiy to thu
j. theoretic systems of our wise men, every
/. thing must be pulled along, or to pieces
The sun is to pull all the planets towards
e himself. The earth is to pull the moon
V after her; the moon is TO pull the water.
and tides, and the tides are to pull thu
/. winds, and the winds are to pull the ships
: and the ships are to pull the men, and th'
. men are to pull the ropes, and the rope'
n are to land the cargo, and here the pull
. ing is ended because the cargo can neve
, be moved again without some pushing a.
we'll as pulling. | will now proceed tt
bring forward evidences in the case o
: tides-evidence of facts-evdences which
. our own senses may cross e1am'ne-evi
! dences all going to the same point, viz II