Waves of the Sea and Other Water Waves |
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AIMBORLIAD average bank Barry Pain bore Branksome Chine breakers channel Chesil Beach Chesilton cloth gilt conduit Coniston Water crest cyclone deep water Demy 8vo distance down-stream Fcap feet FISHER UNWIN'S PUBLICATIONS flood flow Fully Illustrated gale geographical miles greater Green Cloth Library Grünnbach Guntenbach height of waves History Hock Cliff horizontal Illus Illustrations and Maps inches increase Lake Large cr length of fetch Louis Becke measured miles per hour Niagara North Atlantic observed Ocean Paper covers pebbles period Photogravure Photogravure Frontispiece Portland progressive waves Pseudonym Library recorded Red Cloth Library ridges rise river roll-waves running sand Scoresby seconds Severn Severn Bridge shallow shingle ship ship's shore shoreward slope speed standing waves stationary statute miles steep storm storm-waves Story stream surface swell tidal bore tide tion travelling trough Unwin's Green Cloth Unwin's Red Cloth W. B. Yeats wave-crests wave-length WAVE-TRACK weather Whirlpool Rapids
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Page 338 - The rock is dark brown in colour, except about ten feet from the bottom, which is discoloured by the annual rise of the water to that or a greater height. On the left side of .the island we have a good view of the mass of water which causes one of the columns of...
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