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Show HEIGHT OF OCEAN WAVES. General Misapprehension As to Their Enormous Size. A galo In tho open ocean will lash up tho waters Into spray, and prodtico waves which seem of prodigious height to unfortunates In nny small boat; but as "Naturo" points out, few of our Impressions Im-pressions nro moro misleading. Dashed from their crests Into the troughs bo-tweon, bo-tweon, wo say tho waves ran "mountains "moun-tains high"; but tho highest waves in British seas probably never oxceod fifteen or twenty feet, nnd tho greatest great-est height observed by Scoresby In tho waves of tho Atlantic was but forty-three forty-three feet. This is, of courso tho height of tho wnvo from trough to crest, and has nothing to do with tho height to which spray, water or stones may bo hurled when tho waves break on shore. |