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incomirlo n ^ ^ ea P resen t a tide, and the Mediterranean a very 
inched «S \T- Neverthe ! ess > ^ Alexandria the tide rises twenty 
half Vo i ‘ U1Ce height is increased to about six feet and a 
■ ^ake Michigan is slightly affected by the lunar attraction. 
tidal wave isTra^f 1 ^ prepared ma P s > m ^hicli the course of the 
it traverlL tl eTn T** ° f ** globe ' We ** here that 
to the fiftl th f fifti6tl1 degree of s °ath latitude up 
an hour BurSt^ °? five hundred sixty miles 
water. I a the North S ^ V\ ^ \ ^ ** procee<is 18 l eas t in shallow 
miles The ti l' i ^ S< , at the rate of a hundred and eighty 
™ IKS ». Cr r,* ro " ,ia tt6 “* si ° f s»ttaa u 
™™»pr««n te complicated p^r <W ° S “ B 
tides, G * 8 ru y influence on the height of ,t e 
planet, the normal height of , | IT ' * ' ■* a< 7i to tilat of the attracting 
wind in contrary, Z tax rfTTT If ^ 
Zz ££££- ^£2 
inerettl, for*. Tbis Xnwt S3 'fc 1^7 “J 
sssssfs? *» “<”-»■ sr Jtz: 
or seven yards forming 7 . attains the height of six 
gradually sinks as it rolls over" b^iST 1—’ “ 
reality progressive-it transports ™ fl ^ ^ “ 0tl0n 18 not in 
very strong at the Isle of ID floating body. The surf is 
in the Indian Ocean and at ^ ° f Cape de Verd Islan fl s 
dangeroun md ££££***? »«- — it 
represents the effects of the surf «f P If V th ° C ° ast ‘ Flg ‘ 7 
dittany, near Cape Finisterre The I ° n ^ ° f 
to these causes 4e birth on' tJ 7^ ^ influence 
billows Tr-i, ■ i •’ ° “ “ the surface of the sea to waves or 
=;r?s r- — . 
^ MaUe Bmn ’ < tlie Waves seem to carr y sea-goddeLToiTits 
