CONTENTS Xin 



Friction of incoming waves — The break and recession 

 of waves — Height of storm waves along shelving shores 

 — Bell Light and Eddystone — The impact of waves — 

 Destruction of cliffs, shores, and islands — Gnaw of the 

 wave's tooth — Grit in sea water — Wear along cliffs — 

 Bowlders at cliff base — Fate of the bowlders — Soft 

 parts of cliff worn first — Spouting horns — Wave grottoes 

 — Ocean caves — Within the caves — Weird lights and 

 colors — Fiords— Victor Hugo's Lysefiord — Bays and 

 promontories, how made — Towers along shore — Reefs 

 and sunken rocks — The ground-down sands — Bars and 

 necks of land— Lagoons and islands — Marsh lands — 

 Islands lost in storms — The Louisiana coast — Give and 

 take of land and sea — Return of the sands from the sea 

 — Sand driftings and dunes — Dykes and dunes as sea 

 barriers — North Sea flooding Holland — Traveling sands 

 — Villages destroyed by sands — Sahara sands — The sea 

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Chapter VIII. Sounding Shores. — Footprints of 

 the sea — Dover Cliff and Sandwich beach — Old town of 

 Sandwich — The meadows — Gray waters of the shore — 

 Goodwin Sands and its wrecks — The wet beach — Half 

 submerged flats of sand — Gray harmonies — Somber 

 colors of North Sea — The Scottish coast of Sutherland- 

 Central American beaches — Glitter and litter of the 

 shore — Singing sands — Crescent beaches — Irregular 

 beaches of stone and gravel — Strewn on the sands — 

 Shell beaches — White sands — Waves on the beach — 

 Beach combers — Forms of breaking waves — Grace of 

 water movement — Color of waves — Water mirrors on 

 the beach — Reflection of mirrors — Retreat of the water 

 — Wave traceries on sand — Color of shore — Light effects 

 and shore reflections — Moonlight along shore — Noc- 



