Item - Freaks of Nature: Size and Speed of Waves

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Good News — v. 14 no. 360 — page 14
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	Good News, v. 14, no. 360, March 27, 1897 (Issue)
Date:	March 27, 1897
Edition Description:	Part of the "Freaks of Nature" Department.
First Sentence:	Many different answers have been given to the question, "How high are the greatest ocean waves?"
Last Sentence:	Driven before a heavy wind, waves may advance at the rate of from thirty-five to forty miles an hour, and such undulations of the ocean may travel more than five hundred miles from the point where the wind created them, without being accompanied by any disturbance in the atmosphere.