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Excerpt from The Tides: Published Under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
N ow what good does this do us? Look at our great ports: they are, London, on the Thames, fifty miles from the sea; Bristol, on the Avon, and Gloucester, on the Severn, both many miles inland; Glasgow, on the Clyde, and in the very centre of Scotland; Newcastle, ten miles up the Tyne; Hull, twenty miles up the Humber; with numerous others of secondary but still collectively of vast importance, all many miles inland, upon the banks of tidal rivers and estuaries. These ports are all more or less dependent upon the tide, Liverpool and Southampton are less so; but, as we shall have occasion to show hereafter, the probable effect upon them, if the tide were to cease, would be the gradual destruction of their harbours.
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