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Read Feb. 23,
1764.
ON Saturday the 11th instant, when the tide hard hardly begun to flow, according to it's regular course, it was observed, by the water-bailif of the city, and by several others, both on the back, and at the key, to rise very suddenly to almost high-water mark; and it so continued for near half an hour: then it sunk, almost instantaneously, three feet perpendicular: after that, it began to flow in again, and kept flowing on till one of the clock, and rose to the height it was expected to do.
At Rownham Passage, a mile below the city, the ferry-men observed the tide to ebb almost instantaneousy, and to sink at least four feet perpendicular. Then it flowed in again, as it should have regularly done.
Ar King-Road, which is about three miles below the city, the officers observed the king's boat to float suddenly, which they attributed to a great fresh comming. But they found afterwards the boat presently aground.
I could get no intelligence of any thing observable, that happened in the river Severn, excepting that at Gloucester, and at Worcester, the inundation sunk
