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Show I I ' i I .. Monstrous Power of Sea Breakers. From experiments made at Bell Rock i and Skerryvole lighthouses, on the coast ' ! of Scotland, it was found that while the i force of the breakers on the side of the i German ocean may be taken at about a 1 ton and a half to every square foot of ez-; ez-; poised surface, the Atlantic side throws breakers with double that force, or three tons to the square foot: thus a surface of i only two square yards sustains a blow i from a heavy Atlantio breaker equal to : fifty-four tons. In March, 1890, a heavy gale blew for three days and nights at Skerryvole, washing out blocks of lime-I lime-I stone and granite of three and five tons' weight as easily as if they had been empty eggshells, in some cases throwing them entirely over the breakwater at Plymouth.. Over 300 tons of such blocks wera washed 300 feet up the inclined beach after af-ter being thrown over the breakwater ' and scattered about in various directions. direc-tions. One block of limestone, estimated to be of 15 tons weight, was moved over 150 feet froin a place in the surf where it- bad been firmly grounded since 1697, it having been rolled in sight by the aw-fnl aw-fnl gale of the "Windy Christmas" of that 'Year. This is quite a high sea record for 1890, showing that the gale of March 3 was the worst known on the Scottish coast for 193 years. St. Louis Republic, |