 The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for, when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard...  The Niagara River - Page 166by Archer Butler Hulbert - 1908 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1811 - 444 pages
...sloping along the middle of IT. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...terrible than that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." COSMETICKS ARE demanded... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 484 pages
...whole world. It is compounded of two great cross streams of water and two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from...outrageous noise more terrible than that of thunder ; so that when the wind blows from the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen leagues... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 474 pages
...whole world. It is compounded of two great cross streams of water and two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from...manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise more tcrrible than" that bf thunder ; so that when the wind blows from the south, their dismal roaring may... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 pages
...whole world. It is compounded of two great cross streams of water and two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from...manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise more terri67 blc than that of thunder ; so that when the wind blows from the south, their dismal roaring... | |
 | John Maude - History - 1826 - 388 pages
...with an Isle sloping across the middle of " it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam "and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...terrible than that of thunder; for when " the wind blows out of the Sooth, their dismal roaring may be Perceiving a very heavy thunder-gust coming on about... | |
 | Vandewater, Robert J. - 1834 - 122 pages
...falls, with an isle sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...terrible than that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." it were, with very... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...falls with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this outrageous precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...terrible than that of thunder, for when the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." At the mouth of... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...falls with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this outrageous precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...terrible than that of thunder, for when the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." At the mouth of... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...of It. The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most bideons manner imaginable, making an Outrageous Noise, more...terrible than that of Thunder; for when the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...of it. The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hldeons manner imaginable, making an Outrageous Noise, more...terrible than that of Thunder; for when the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets... | |
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