Excerpt from The Annual Bulletin of the Beach Erosion Board, Vol. 12: July, 1958The profiles described above were superposed on a common plot for each direction and averaged in order to arrive at a profile which would be representative of the average offshore hydrography at Narragansett Pier (see Figure The averaging process was carried out by select ing a common (equal) distance seaward of the mhw line for each profile and then averaging the respective depths of the several profiles at this point. This process was repeated until a sufficient number of points had been Obtained to plot the average profile. 'the average profile determined from the data is shown on Figure 3 (dashed line).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.