The opening was four miles wide; and we steered into it, passing through ripplings of tide with irregular soundings.
The morning sun shone brightly, a gentle breeze maderipplings on the lagoon, the palms waved their fronds in languid gestures, and the surf could be heard booming and splashing on the outer reef.
The underwater world was beautifully bright, with ripplings making everything seem to shimmer because of the changing light.
And what are these but the ebb and flow of life ancestral,--under-ripplings in that well-spring unfathomable of personality whose flood is Soul.
It is not a flicker, but a burnished glow;--at such a distance ripplings are invisible.
These ripplings commonly lasted 10 or 12 minutes, and then the sea became as still and smooth as a mill-pond.
The tides ran between the two points of the bay, very strong and uncertain: yet it did not rise and fall above nine foot upon a spring tide: but it made great ripplings and a roaring noise, whirling about like whirlpools.
And those whirlpools were not constant to one place, but drove about strangely; and sometimes we saw among them large ripplings of the water, like great overfalls, making a fearful noise.
On our way we steered through strong tide-ripplings in which, at times, notwithstanding the strength of the breeze, the cutter was quite ungovernable.
We passed many ripplings occasioned by the tide setting round the point and meeting the other tide from the southward.
It was late in the forenoon before the violent ripplings at Tide-Race Point had subsided sufficiently to allow of our passing it.
And then, suddenly, I became aware that theripplings were far, very far away, and that the woman was gone.
Six and nine miles North by East from it we had crossed several lines of ripplings and shoal patches of 4 and 5 fathoms.
The many patches of ripplings we now saw in every direction westward, assured us that the Amphinome Shoals were close at hand; on patches one and two miles west and south of the ship there was only six and nine feet.
A line of ripplings extended a couple of miles off to the south-west of it, in which we found there was only four fathoms.
The ripplings and discoloured water are a warning that they should be approached with caution on this side.
After the noon observation another attempt was made to find a passage to the westward; but at the end of eighteen miles we found ourselves embayed among patches of ripplings and breakers.
Ripplings of a suspicious appearance caused the whale boat to be kept ahead for some time; but finding no ground upon them with 30 fathoms, and the breeze becoming fresh, the boat was called on board.
This irregularity, and the meeting of two tides, one from the north and another from the east, caused great ripplingsin the water; and with the light winds, retarded our progress round the cape.
They seemed absolutely undetectable, because even such minute light-ripplings as they made were left behind them.
These ripplings have been frequently noticed in the vicinity of the reefs, but we have been very little affected by the tides by which they must be occasioned.
Every now and then we were in the midst of the most violent ripplings and whirlpools, which sometimes whirled the vessel round and round, to the danger of our masts.
Upon a long layer of the slaty stone were marks of ripplings of some now waveless sea; mid which were tri-toed footprints of some huge heron, or wading fowl.
For a time, each prow's ripplings were distinctly heard: ripple after ripple.
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