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THE OCEAN WORLD. 
breast, which seem to revel amid plays and dances; in the nest 
instant, a tempest rising ont of them, seems to he animated by its 
fury. They seem to swell with passion, and we think we see in 
them marine monsters which are prepared for war. A strong, com 
stant, and equal wind produces long swelling billows, which, rising on 
the same line, advance with a uniform movement, one after the other, 
precipitating themselves upon the coast. Sometimes these billows are 
Fig. 7. Effects of Hurricane at Point du Baz, Cape Finisterrc. 
suspended by the wind or arrested by some current, thus forming, as it 
were, a liquid wall. In this position, unhappy is the daring navigator 
who is subjected to its fury.” The highest waves are those which 
prevail in the offing off the Gape of Good Hope at the period of high 
tide, under the influence of a strong north-west wind, which has 
traversed the South Atlantic, pressing its waters towards the Cape- 
“ The billows there lift themselves up in long ridges,” says Dr. Maury, 
“ with deep hollows between them. They run high and fast, tossing 
