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RefNoCLP/6/32
LevelItem
TitlePaper, regarding an account of the current of the tides around Orcades [Orkney Islands] by Robert Moray
Date[1672]
DescriptionMoray describes how 'in Fairay-Sound (between the Isles of Fairay and Ætha in Orkney) the sea runs north-east, for the space only of three hours in flowing, and nine hours south-west in ebbing'.

Subject: Oceanography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the current of the tydes about the orcades, given in by a gentleman of Scotland, who had pass'd himself that way, and from him communicated to the Publisher by the truly Honourable Sir Robert Moray Knight, deceased, lately one of the Vice-Presidents of the R. Society, of which he had been President formerly; whose death is no less deservedly than exceedingly lamented by all that knew his worth, knowledge, integrity, prudence, and courage'
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1673.0048
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8261Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician1608 - 1673
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