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Ocean Swells

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THE late melancholy accident in Fingal's Cave, Staffa, by which three lives were lost, when several visitors to the island were washed off the railed ledge by a large wave which suddenly and unexpectedly broke into the cave, leads me to submit the following account of a somewhat similar wave and on the same part of the coast.

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GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. Ocean Swells. Nature 30, 487–488 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030487a0

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