TIDE TABLE FOR THE COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. Sound, S. Charleston, S. C., (Custom-house wharf.) Sound, Ga., (Fort 04000 I 6 26 0 26 4.45 7 40 0 30 4 6 19 0 35 20 6 6 0 30 0 7.4 4.4 6 5.9 Place. TIDE TABLE for the COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. The tides of ports in the Gulf of Mexico, west of Cape St. George, ebb and flow, as a rule, but once in twenty-four hours, or are single-day tides. At particular parts of the month there are two small tides in the twenty-four hours. The rise and fall in all these ports is small. The highest high and the lowest low waters occur when the greatest declination of the moon happens at full or change; the least tide when the moon's declination is nothing at the first or last quarter. The rise and fall being so small, the times and heights are both much influenced by the winds, and are thus rendered quite irregular. The following table gives the rise and fall at several points: Rise and Fall at several Stations in the Gulf of Mexico. TIME OF HIGH WATER ON FULL AND CHANGE DAYS, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, WITH THE RISE OF THE TIDE AT SPRINGS AND NEAPS.* [When a query, thus ?, is placed after the Time of High Water and the Rise, it indicates that what are given are approximations.] *By the Rise of the Tide is meant its vertical rise above the mean low water level of Spring Tides. |