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retain their identity after they first break sufficiently for them to crest 

 and break again, and perhaps again, as they come into shoaler and 

 shoaler water. It also happens commonly that a breaker of the spilling 



Figure 38. — Aerial photograph showing moderately heavy breakers on two bars, 

 as well as on the beach behind them, near Race Point, Cape Cod, November 

 18, 1944. (Photograph by Photo Squadron 2, Norfolk Naval Air Station.) 



type (p. Ill) is still travelling toward the land when the next wave 

 breaks behind it, and perhaps a third and a fourth if conditions are 

 right. The matter is still further complicated by the fact that while 

 one wave may break abruptly, the next may do so continuously as it 



