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stretched an irregular line of ripple dotted
Between the vessel and this waste of water, and within three hundred feet of the first, stretched an irregular line of ripple, dotted here and there with the heads of low naked rocks, marking the presence and direction of the reef.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

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