Show SOUTH SEA WAVES We all remember with what frequency frequency fre Ire quency In the old narratives of experiences In the South Seas Seas reference Is made to the heavy swells of the ocean w which Impressed the navigators with the Idea of their remoteness from land lanc size of the set waves In high southern latitudes has been i explained by the fact that south 01 ol the Cape of af Good Hope and Cape Horn there Is neither windward nor leeward shore and the prevailing wind In all aU longitudes is westerly Thus when a west wind springs up it finds a long westerly swell the effect of a previous ous wind still sUll running The newborn wind Increases the steepness ot this swell and so forms majestic storm waves which sometimes attain a length of 1200 feet from crest to crest The average height attained by se sea waves In feet is about half the velocity of the wind In miles an hour |