1
The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
2
On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
3
The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
4
At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
5
But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
6
'But what makes the neap tides?'