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"ref": "1770, Captain James Cook, Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, entry for 22 June 1770",
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"ref": "1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, volume II page 860",
"text": "It is well known that the spring tides happen at the change and full of the moon, at which time she is conjunction with and opposition to the sun. As these retire from their conjunction, the tides neap till about three days after the first quadrature, when the tides begin again to be more and more elevated, and arrive at their maximum about the third day after the opposition.",
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