SPEED OF WAVES.
Waves travel faster than the wind which causes them, and in the Bay of Biscay frequently, during the autumn and winter in calm weather, a heavy sea gets up and rolls in on the coast 24 hours before the gale which causes it arrives, and of which it is the prelude.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 18 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)
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54SPEED OF WAVES. Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 18 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)
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