An account of the circulation of the watry vapours of the sea, and of the cause of springs, presented to the Royal Society

Abstract

Some time since, I shewed an Experiment of the Quantity of Water raised in Vapour from the surface of the Sea in a days time, which was so far approved by some honourable Members of this Society, that I have received their Commands to prosecute those Enquiries, and particularly in relation to the Method used by Nature to return the said Vapours again into the Sea, which is so justify performed that in many hundreds of years we are sufficiently assured that the Sea has not sensibly decreas'd by the loss in Vapour; nor yet abounded by the immense quantity of fresh it receives continually from the Rivers.