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THE great importance of the subject is my excuse for troubling you once more, very briefly, regarding it. In NATURE of July 21, I stated that, according to the present tidal theory, the tidal forces, and consequently the tides, would be just the same for a sea-depth of about 4000 miles as for the actual sea-depth of about 2 miles; and, in the same issue, your reviewer, “The Writer of the Note,” agrees that this is true, or, in his own words, “that the differential motion of the oceans is determined by the vectorial excess of the forces at the earth's surface over those at its centre”; which appears to ignore entirely the depth of the ocean as a factor determining the height of the tides.
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MCLENNAN, E. The Tides. Nature 112, 726 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112726a0
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