 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 more...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 317edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 484 pages
...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, making an...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 - Canada - 1826 - 386 pages
...sloping across the middle of it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be FALLS UP NIAGARA. 139 Perceiving a very heavy thunder-gust coming on about 3 p. M. I returned to Chippawa,... | |
 | John Maude - History - 1826 - 388 pages
...sloping across the middle of " it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam "and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...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
...sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." it were, with very terror, into a dark caldron below, maddened and lashed into foam white as the driven... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this outrageous precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." At the mouth of Niagara river they erected a store-house to preserve their goods, and, lest their designs... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this outrageous precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." At the mouth of Niagara river they erected a store-house to preserve their goods, and, lest their designs... | |
 | 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...roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets of the seventeenth century, — "horrible," "hideous," "outrageous," "dismal."... | |
 | 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...roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets of the seventeenth century .—"horrible," "hideous," "outrageous," "dismal."... | |
 | George Drought Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - Canada - 1846 - 728 pages
...sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...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 of the... | |
 | George Warburton - Atlantic Provinces Description and travel - 1846 - 430 pages
...sloping across the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...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 of the... | |
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