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the flood, backed by the irresistible power of the ocean's rhythmic puise, 

 was swallowing up the ebb with an on-rush which must be seen to be 

 fully appreciated. 



At two miles from Haining the flood-stream, probably that from the 

 southeastward which appeared to run through the other, charged into 

 the sea-wall, the violent rebound from which caused a tumultuous up- 

 heaval of the waters several hundred yards behind in waves twice as 

 high again as the front of the bore. 



As the northern end of the bore struck one of the buttresses, its 

 line of advance was deflected and it came on with a curving and re- 

 curving crescent front, the ends being thrown forward of the middle 



A Junk Refuge— the Junk shown in Previous Pictures is lying on this Refuge 

 to the Left of the Part here shown. 



portion by several hundred yards. This deep graceful curve in the 

 line of the turbulent waters was undoubtedly due, aside from the 

 deflection caused by the buttresses, to the swifter current in the center 

 of the ebb. unwilling to the last to admit defeat. 



As the bore passed Haining at about 1 :45 p.:\r. it had somewhat the 

 form of a double crescent, over a mile long and eight to eleven feet high, 

 traveling, twelve or thirteen miles an hour; its front a sloping cascade 

 of bubbling foam, falling forward and pounding on itself and on the 

 river before it at an angle of between forty and seventy degrees, the 

 highest and steepest part being about six hundred yards off shore over 

 the deep channel of the river. Close by the northern bank or sea-wall 

 the height and rush were not so great because of the projecting buffers 



