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Show . . tMl r . aKT ( -JXI JXI ) 358 ( "fiha fiha Ifilia ) water ( muis xulis ) through at a , swift paeo , wliaraas in ( the -the the ) ocean wave the water is comparatively ( statioii- statioii station- station ) ( -try try ) , ( merely inerely ) passing through a ( small sinall ) orbit , and ( the thq ) ( -wave wave ) goes on . The line of the crest and ( troughs trouabs ) of these waves were ordinarily diagonal to the ( aiver -xiver xiver ) ; he should say they were pretty near at ( forty- forty ) ( five live ) degrees with the axis of the river . They had sail open boat , a skiff . ( R . 1261 . ) He means at an ( angle -angle angle ) of ( forty-five fortyfive ) degrees , even when the river was running in a straight course ; these waves did not : cover a long stretch of river . The curvature of the river was not very essential . It was not caused by . a ( bend beud ) ; the waves were in general at an angle of about ( forty-five fortyfive ) degrees , perhaps ( he lie ) should ( have hwe ) ( said -said said ) with the current . Had a skiff with a freeboard of about one foot , and the length of the skiff being about sixteen feet using those as measures . He estimated that ( from froin ) crest to crest some of the ( worst -worst worst ) of these waves was not more than ten or twelve feet ; it was not as much as the length of the skiff ; and that the height of the ( wa-N waN ) , ( es-of esof ) the crest , of the ( wave -Niave Niave ) above the trough was fully three feet . ( R . 1261 . ) They ran from that down to the point ( where -where where ) they had nothing but the chop . This ( smooth sinooth ) ( , Y ) undulatory form lasted only a very short time , ( he lie ) should ( imagine iinagine ) it was considerably less than a ( min min- min ) ¬ ute , perhaps ( not uot ) more than thirty seconds ; then they broke , breaking up stream , and in another few seconds they disappeared and they had the , ( ehoppy elioppy ) form . ( 33307--31-voi 3330731voi ) . 1-23 |