Paper, details of an extraordinary high tide observed at Shadwell [London] by Captain Thomas Jones Jones describes a high tide which was said to have reached 25 foot and five inches and a half. Subject: Oceanography Read to the Royal Society on 10 March 1728 Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from Mr. Thomas Jones to James Jurin, M.D. F. R. S. and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London, concerning the high tide in the River Thames, on Feb. 16, 1736' 8 March 1726