The billows there lift themselves up in long ridges with deep hollows between them. They run high and fast, tossing their white caps aloft in the air, looking like the green hills of a rolling prairie capped with snow, and chasing each other in sport. Still their march is stately and their roll majestic.

The Physical Geography of the Sea: and its Meteorology, The Winds, 845 (p. 292), Sampson Low, Son & Co. 1857