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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 



