Something infinitely BROAD I should say.

Is that nonsense now ?" "Not to me," said Alice.
"I imagined," said Sam, "that the sea would be much rougher than this.
In spite of the ceaseless thunder below there, it is very calm." "Calm, eh ?" said the Doctor's voice behind them.

"God help the ship that should touch that reef this day, though a nautilus might float in safety! See, how the groundswell is tearing away at those rocks; you can just distinguish the long heave of the water, before it breaks.
There is the most dangerous groundswell in the world off this coast.
Should this country ever have a large coast-trade, they will find it out, in calm weather with no anchorage." A great coasting trade has arisen; and the Doctor's remark has proved terribly true.

Let the Monumental City and the Schomberg, the Duncan Dunbar and the Catherine Adamson bear witness to it.

Let the drowning cries of hundreds of good sailors, who have been missed and never more heard of, bear witness that this is the most pitiless and unprotected, and, even in calm weather, the most dangerous coast in the world.
But Jim came panting up, and, throwing himself on the short turf, said-- "So this is the great Southern Ocean; eh! How far can one see, now, Halbert ?" "About thirty miles." "And how far to India; eh ?" "About seven thousand." "A long way," said Jim.