 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 258 pages
...that we could not reach the river Niagara before the 30th of July. Father Gabriel and I went overland to view the great fall, the like whereof is not in...descent, that it violently hurries down the wild beasts, endeavoring to pass it to feed on the other side, casting them down headlong above six hundred feet.... | |
 | Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 734 pages
...that of thunder; for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off. " The river Niagara having thrown...precipice, continues its impetuous course for two leagues together, to the great rock, above mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity; but having past that,... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 604 pages
...imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of Thunder, for when the Wind blows from off the South, their dismal roaring may be heard above...Precipice, continues its impetuous course for two Leagues together, to the great Rock above mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity : But having passed that,... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - Ohio - 1854 - 562 pages
...blows from off the South, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen Leagues off. " The Eiver Niagara having thrown itself down this incredible...Precipice, continues its impetuous course for two Leagues together, to the great Bock above mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity : But having passed that,... | |
 | William Ketchum - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1864 - 452 pages
...be heard above fifteen leauges off. * Probably meaning the fall and rapids both above and below. u The river Niagara having thrown itself down this incredible...precipice, continues its impetuous course, for two leagues together, to the great rock, above mentioned, with an .inexpressible rapidity, but having passed that,... | |
 | William Ketchum - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1864 - 456 pages
...be heard above fifteen leauges off. 'Probably meaning the fall and raliids both above and lielow. " The river Niagara having thrown itself down this incredible...precipice, continues its impetuous course, for two leagues together, to the great rock, above mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity, bnt having passed that,... | |
 | James Macaulay - United States - 1871 - 512 pages
...imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows from off the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above...precipice, continues its impetuous course for two leagues together to the great rock above mentioned, with an inexpressible rapidity; but having passed that,... | |
 | George Washington Holley - Geology - 1872 - 186 pages
...that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off. " The river Niagara having thrown...precipice, continues its impetuous course for two leagues together to the great rock, above mentioned [in another chapter as lying at the foot of the mountain... | |
 | George Washington Holley - Geology - 1872 - 186 pages
...the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off. ,y " The river Niagara having thrown itself down this inCredible...precipice, continues its impetuous course for two leagues together to the great rock, above mentioned [in another chapter as lying at the foot of the mountain... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Middle Atlantic States - 1876 - 562 pages
...thunder : for when the wind blows out of the S. their dismal roaring may lie heard more than 15 leagues. The River Niagara, having thrown itself down this...incredible precipice, continues its impetuous course for 2 leagues together .... with an inexpressible rapidity The two brinks of it are so prodigious high... | |
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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; for when the wind blows from off the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above... 
