| 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...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 in... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 484 pages
...two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this vast height do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...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... | |
| John Maude - History - 1826 - 388 pages
...two great cross-streams of " water, and two Falli, with an Isle sloping across the middle of " it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice,...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 3 p. M. I returned... | |
| Vandewater, Robert J. - 1834 - 122 pages
...composed of two great cross streams of water, and two falls, with an isle sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice...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 terror,... | |
| United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...and two 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...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 Niagara river... | |
| United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...and two 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...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 Niagara river... | |
| 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...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 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...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 of... | |
| George Drought Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - Canada - 1846 - 728 pages
...of two great cross streams and two falls of water, with an island sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice...that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south this dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off ; the Niagara river at the foot... | |
| Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 258 pages
...two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this vast height do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...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... | |
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