Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-12-15
THE OCEANS WAVES.
THEY ARE NOT MOUNTAINS
HIGH BY ANY MEANS.
Forty Feet Their Record Higher Waves
Have Bssn seen, But the General Run
Of nigh waves rails Very. Very Far
Below That.

their grizzled heads and wink their
weather eyes while they smile doubt.
ingly II they return anything 10 such
remarks ii will be- quotation from
some reliable authority or leaf from
the book of their own experience called
log and log books never lilo while
story tellers are always inclined toward
fiction Many ocean travellers have
seen waves Of one hundred feet In
height ia their own imaglnatiOns and we
may excuse their receptions often
unintentional upon the ground that
they have deceived themselves in a
matter where ID seems almost impOssl-
BILE To form any correct idea. Look
ing upward from ship 10 the trough
OF the sea- 10 the crest Of wave i'm
mediately overhead Il seems Tar
greater height than il possibly can b.,
But ii waves wcre ever 100 frat la
height and broke upon vessel bu,
once, very few ~ our stauucheAt
ocean steamers would live Ia ses land
again after getting OUT 81 sight % il
In his Physical History Ol the Sea"
the Comte do Marsili tells o. thar the
highest wave observed 81 him On the
shores Of t.anguedOc, where tbs feteh
ol the Mediterranean was GuU miles.
was 81 feet from crest 10 base, and
br SeOrcsly found waves III tho At
lantic from 80 70 Az feet n height.
from the crest ID the bottom az ths
hollow, And these wrrc the largest
% waves, seldom me, with
Most people haye noticed the swell
from large steamer and uotr,i also
It's force The outgoing Tide serves
the purpose ~ the sandy shore and
the volume ~ water Ia the yv-sssl's
swell \ hurled With momentum
which may have BORNE Il d guur iert
and covered sou win foam M This
case i seems a. II the rHrrrnt. rnuntug
against the Incoming swell. would
either wholly destroy IT,, iorce TX ths
latter Or AZ least reduce Ia forces hut
the forces ~ wave. are peculiar
Among seaneu the fact l. well known
that tbs nastisat ocean wasrs ar, III
the gulf stream 10 the -outhw ard ii
the banks. whore The current, with
mighty strength, opposes then, whom
they come from tho east. The current
seems 70 make them narrower and
sleeper
The sailor does not fear the lRrguat
waves, says the Philadelphia Times.
provided they are large enough al
the base Il Il thu great wave whose
crest curls that he most breads for
that il the wave that oyrrwheiIn. a
ship. falling with crushing cFec, upon
u. The largest waves arc to l., found
on tho cape 81 Good Hops. where
there are not over d dozen swrlla NJ
the mile sometimes. and thrsa ara not
a. all dangerous AZ compared with
such sea a. wAs encountered IL ihs
steamer GlamorQau IN her pasange
from Liverpool 20 Boston somn twclvs
years ago II was while crossing the
Atlantic and la a gale shc was honr,ied
py wave that tore hcr iron hulgnrka
on the ship o. II they wer0 cardboard
broke avay completely tho iron side oi
me house on deck. tore an hairhss
and filed the hold with water. Thoas
on board who we're not killed ~ that
wave wcre taken IN by another yesari.
ana yet That was nothing 70 the for,r
tnat has boon cxetted hy thu wavo4 al
other times. u has bgon frelurstly
hottced nv captains ~ vessels Tint
heavy roller coming over forwards win
completely overcome the headwav N
tho ship, % that she VIII ma trembling
IN the trough
The fact II upon record INA. ~,
waves of the German ocean ones b,,x,,
ia two asolid column II frrr4tnno mr..
ty-sl2 teet high and seventeen foot IL
diameter Mt the base This shaft vna
standing IN place at the time. Al the
point Of fracture tho diameter yas
eleven feet. But at the Toll n N.
Bound skerry Of Whulsoy. IN Zslt I'M
waves had broken out IN their b,5s
which were eighty-hve fcet abayc thc
level Of the sea, blocks az atona y,i,,b.
ing from eight 70 ten tons.
Of course science has made The ~.
TORT OF calculating The force ~ wavoa
and invented an instrument M NM,
purpose which has mat with mnrc NJ
less success. The marine dvnamo,,,..
~
ter has been used FOR tbia purnoss 1,
= simply known surface for tho va.
ter 70 impinge on. the force 81 ~ in.
pact being transferred to sprinys ~
known strength The distance ~
which the springs are compressed Il
self-registering and In this wny M
force OF the waves, under not extraor.
binary circumstances. has been found
TO bc as high as three tons n tbs
square loot. Under some excentionat
circumstances the pressure has boon
more than double that weight A.
fort Sonachan. in England. where Inc
ietch o the waves on the breadth ~
~, water over which they travel "a
put fourteen miles block of STONE
weighing quarter Of ton was torn
out Of solid stone staircase leadina
from q landing; II was then rolled
over and over Now II sneb efTacts
are obtained under such circumstance
what shall we say is the force which
TRANSATLANTIC steamers have to encoun.
ter on many voyagesP