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ORIGIN OF WAVES.
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surface of the sea into ripples, and then, acting with ever-increasing power on the little surfaces thus raised, blows them up into waves, and finally into great billows. Sometimes, however, winds burst

SCATTERED INTO FOAM.
SCATTERED INTO FOAM.

SCATTERED INTO FOAM.

upon the calm ocean with such sudden violence that for a time the waves cannot lift their heads. The instant they do so, they are cast down and scattered