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Indian Ocean, and at Sumatra, where the surf renders it dangerous 

 and sometimes impossible to land on the coast. Fig. 6 represents 

 the effects of the surf at Point du Raz, on the coast of Brittany. 

 The winds adding their influence to these causes, give birth on the 



Fig. 6. Point du Raz, Coast of Brittany. 



surface of the sea to waves or billows, which increase rapidly, rising 

 in foaming mountains, rolling, bounding, and breaking one against 

 the other. " In one moment/' says Malte-Brun, " the wave seems 

 to carry sea-goddesses on its breast, which seem to revel in sports 

 and dances ; in the next instant, a tempest rising out of them, seems 

 to be animated by its fury. They seem to swell with passion, and 



