Paper, regarding an account of the current of the tides around Orcades [Orkney Islands] by Robert Moray Moray 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' [1672]