 | John Maude - Canada - 1826 - 386 pages
...with mills and houses, and cultivated fields.* * " Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water, which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, insomucli that the Unirerse does not afford its parallel. — This wonderful Downfall is about six... | |
 | John Maude - History - 1826 - 388 pages
...Lake Erie, there is a vast and " prodigious Cadence of Water, which falls down after a sur" prising and astonishing manner, insomuch that the Universe " does not afford its parallel. — This wonderful Downfall is about " six hundred feet, and composed of two great cross-streams of... | |
 | Vandewater, Robert J. - 1834 - 122 pages
...traveller, who visited the Falls in 1679, says, " Between the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. This wonderful waterfall is about 600 feet, and composed of two great cross streams of water, and two... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...Of this our author gives the following description : "Between the Lakes Ontario and Erie there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true Italy and Suedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say they are but sorry patterns... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...this our author gives the following description : " Between the Lakes Ontario and Erie there is a rast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls down...insomuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true Italy and Suedeland boast of some Mich things, but we may well say they are but sorry patterns... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Brothers and sisters - 1840 - 366 pages
...missionary, who travelled in this country in 1678, says, ' Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true, Italy and Suedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say they are but sorry patterns,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Great Lakes - 1844 - 288 pages
...entirely their own. With what gusto does Father Hennepin describe " this great downfall of water," " this vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. "Tis true Italy and Swedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say that they be sorry patterns.... | |
 | George Drought Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - Canada - 1846 - 728 pages
...of his quaint and exaggerated description : " Betwixt the Lake Ontario and the Lake Erie, there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls down after a surprising and extraordinary manner, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. This wonderful downfall... | |
 | William Barham - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1847 - 196 pages
...in December, 1678, thus describes the Falls : — " Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true, Italy and Suedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say that they are but sorry... | |
 | Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - Niagara Falls - 1848 - 204 pages
...following are interesting extracts from this account : " Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true, Italy and Suedland boast of some such things, but we may well say that they are but sorry... | |
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Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water, which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel. 
