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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



VICINITY OF- SEABVieNT 

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under some of the smaller cottages and drag them farther back upon 

 the beach before the waves demolished them : while still others hurriedly 

 removed their furniture in wagons,. abandoning the buildings to their 

 fate. A few men stood under the comer of a partially undermined 

 summer residence and struggled in vain to erect a plank bulwark which 

 would stop tiie advancing sea, while the surging waters nearly swept 

 them from their feet. Crowds of spectators waded knee-deep through 

 the foam blown up from the surf zone by the winds, and watched the 

 water of the sea leap high above three-story dwellings where waves 

 were breaking against some resisting bulkhead. Many observed with 

 anxiety the attack of the sea upon the beach under the large Octagon 

 Hotel, and shortly before noon saw the great building collapse and be- 

 come, in a short time, a tangled mass of splintered wood rising and 

 falling with the waves. Occasional waves sent water across the narrow 

 I'ur, the streets of Seabright were inundated, and the unusually high 

 li'lf Ml:ifh accompanied the storm kept many houses on the lower, back 



