. The children's book of stars . ■ Mn n M \ Moon pvllin-g (he ^ffl§°^ Water ti,^aT^ it -««:. »v \NaUt THE MOON RAISING THE TIDES. comparatively small one, it is very strongly cannot displace the actual surface to any greatextent, as it is so solid; but when it comes to thewater she can and does displace that, so that thewater rises up in answer to her pull, and as the earthturns round the raised-up water lags behind, reach-ing backward toward the moon, and is drawn up THE SHINING MOON 31 on the beach, and makes high tide. But it is stoppedthere, and meantime, by reason of the earths m
. The children's book of stars . ■ Mn n M \ Moon pvllin-g (he ^ffl§°^ Water ti,^aT^ it -««:. »v \NaUt THE MOON RAISING THE TIDES. comparatively small one, it is very strongly cannot displace the actual surface to any greatextent, as it is so solid; but when it comes to thewater she can and does displace that, so that thewater rises up in answer to her pull, and as the earthturns round the raised-up water lags behind, reach-ing backward toward the moon, and is drawn up THE SHINING MOON 31 on the beach, and makes high tide. But it is stoppedthere, and meantime, by reason of the earths move-ment, the moon is left far behind, and pulls thewater to itself further on, when the first high tiderelapses and falls down again. At length the moongets round to quite the opposite side of the earthto that where she began, and there she makes ahigh tide too ; but as she draws the water to her-self she draws also the solid earth beneath thewater to her in some degree, and so pulls it awayfrom the place where the first high tide occurred,leaving the water there deeper than before, an
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