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MR. EDWARD ROBERTS in his letter has, I think, missed the chief object I had in addressing you. I did not complain that the authorities had not taken pains to calculate the heights of the tides, but that while one could take up almost any paper on the coast and find the heights of the tides of the place for the coming week, not one of the London papers, so far as I could find, supplied this information for its readers. What I felt to be a desirable thing was that the Meteorological Office, or some other constituted authority, should send to the daily papers warnings, when necessary, that on such a day a dangerous tide might be expected with a wind from such a quarter and with such a barometer, as the tide would be unusually high under even favourable weather—in fact, give a forecast of the tide.
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JENKINS, B. Expected High Tides. Nature 17, 101–102 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017101c0
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