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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 
