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IN a letter written by my nephew, Mr. Ernest Gladstone of Aberdeen, describing the recent storms, he says: “When we got within a quarter of a mile of the sea we were astonished to see great flocks of foam, like snowballs, flying in all directions. A little further on we came to aae of the large hollows in the links, and we saw a sight none of us had seen before; for the whole hollow, about 100 yards long and 50 broad, was one sea of slimy foam, of which a great part must have been about 10 feet deep. This was tossing up and down as if it were the sea itself. The waves of water broke far out at sea, but great rollers of foam kept rolling in towards the links, making it impossible to come near the sea without wading up to your waist in foam for nearly a quarter of a mile, and occasionally meeting a foam-wave up to your neck.”
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GLADSTONE, J. Sea Froth . Nature 25, 33 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025033a0
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