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SEA WAVES. BILLOWS OF.CALM AND STORM ON THE OCEAN.
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During the course of a recent earth- quake apparently centred in the deepest bed of the South Pacile, the nearest hind being Hawaii, a series of seismic waves were sat rolling over the face of the ocean, The height of these is variously estimated at from twelve to fifteen feet, and they appear to have travelled hundreds of miles before losing their volume in the normal surface of the water.
FLANDERS MUD BLOOMS AGAIN,
THE INUNDATED AREA RESTORED. Inundated Belgium, whose vegetation was drowned out with salt water by her military engineers to keep back the Gor- man hordea, was an unsavory expanse of mud for nearly a year after the Armistice
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months later it blossomed like the rose, being covered with plants and wild flowers. The return of the normal vegetation and the way in which it drove away the few saltmarsh plants, which were all that re- mained to the overflowered district, is in- ceedings issued by the Botanical Institute of The whole subject of "acas" is one of terestingly told in a recent volunts of pro fascinating interest. The various forms in Brussels under the superintendence of Prof. which the ocean expressa its moods are ex-Jean Massart. We quote from a review in traordinary in their range. This we may Nature (London) of Professor Massart's gather from the number of words employed description of the vegetation succeeding to describe the different types of surface upon the war-tine inundations of the disturbance. We have waves, billows, ser and upon the ruins of Nieuport. surges, curlers, combers, rollers, swells, surf, Says this paper: breakers, most of which are responsible for
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Commotion of the sea surface is occasion-
FLOODED FOR FOUR YEARS,
"Behind the dunes bordering the
ed by various causes. The wind, of course, Belgian coast there lies a long stretch. is the chief factor of disturbance, Tidal of country, the level of which is inter. On October LTD. intences will cause mitation, ronging mediate between the level of the high
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from the race or overfall familiar around and low tides of the aen. our coasts to the slow-moving magni-29th, 1914, the Belgian engineers open- ficent rollers which burst upon the shores ed the locks at high tide and allowed the of St. Helena, Shoaling ground will sea to flow over this portion of their front, thus preventing the farther advance of the occasion breakers from an alumst imper German forces, and giving their own heroic
The reason ceptible heave of surface.
For four for the calm swell is not always easy to troops a well-earned respite. divine; in most cases it is either the pioneer long years these inundations remained or the aftermath of a storm, but a fog will upon the land, fully maintained in winter bring up quite a considerable roll in most by the natural rainfall and the bumid placid weather-nobody appears to know atmosphere, in the drier season assisted by the regulated indur of the sen controlled precisely why,
by the Belgian engineer service.
THE HEAVIEST SEA).
Que often hears old sailormen debating as to where the heaviest sens in the world may be met. Naturally their opinions are influenced by the zone in which they have encountered the fiercest gule. But the con- sensus of experience seems to favour the waters of the Agulhas Bank as the most undesirable tract of ocean in this respect. The billows that chase in towards the Cape of Good Hope in a south-easter have, the whole drift of the Antarctic Ocean behind them, and owing to the character of the ground they are even more fero- cious than the seas of Cape Horn. For it
now known that ware action in tempestuous weather extends to an immense depth, and that the bed of the ocean, according to how far it may be smooth or jagged, will influence the scend
of the seas.
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The Chops of the Channel, in a heavy south-westerly gale, are a playground for very heary seas. The rapid shoaling of the bed from beyond soundings to the thirty-odd fathoms around the Elaystone produces a beaping-up of the liquid ridges As to the height of the heaviest waves raised by tempest, this very rarely exceeds 40 feet from crest to hollow in the opon ocean, but may become accentuated in shoaling water. The trough is usually about fifteen tiraes the height from crest to erest of regularly-running surges.
The biggest sea"is not by any means necessarily the most dangerous sea from the sailor's point of view. Mere altitude of peak and yarn of charm are not alarm ing. It is the breaking sea which the mariner regards with apprehension; the steep wave with a curling, frothing crest, which is only seeking some unlucky hull to burst with a thunderous avalanche, filling the decks rail high.
The vegetation of this region, once wrested from the sea, rapidly succumbed before the salt water-willows, poplars, elms, etc., all dying as the salt tide reached their roots.
At Blankacrt, where the waters of the Yser dilated the salt water, Massart figures an interesting group of willows which, inundated for more than a metre above their normal root level, have developed a fresh crop of roots at the new water level, increasing the girth of their trunks above this new fringe of roote.
WAR AMONG THE PLANTS.
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Very few plants replaced the dis. placed vegetation, and when the water retreated the mud was desolate. Massart describes the red alga, growing in the brackish shell hole, but no longer red in colour. Fringing the salt inundation were typical As the halophytes [salt-water plant]. waters receded and the former dosizess returned to the attack these plants have to retreat in 1919 in the ascendent through. out the region, 1920 finds them fighting desperately for a foothold upon the salt- incrusted edge of many a shell-hole. Active in the attack napon these war- time invaders is Agrojum repent, plant, the fighting qualities if which are known to many an allotment holder. Phragmiles Communis bad maintained itself during the inundation upon occasional islets rising above the general flood level, where it dispossessed practically all other inhabitants trying to maintain themselve before the salt Hood. long, slender rhizomes descend from these little knolls and Phragmites eagerly advances to
As the mud dries,
recover its old domain. made by An interesting observation Massart is that as "the yellow-flowered halophyte Aster tripolium, typical of the salt marsh, recedes before the reconquer ing form of the fertile Belgian plain of peace, there is a fringe of the form of this
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