 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1875 - 604 pages
...quaint that I am tempted to quote a portion of it : " Betwixt the lakes Ontario and Erie" he says, " there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water, which...manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford a parallel. At the foot of this horrible Precipice we meet with the river Niagara, which is not above... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Middle Atlantic States - 1876 - 562 pages
...Hennepin in 1678, who gave, them a height of GOO ft., saying also : " Betwixt the Lakes Erie and Ontario there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls down a surprising and astonishing height, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel The waters... | |
 | John Charles Dent - Canada - 1881 - 360 pages
...description, of which the following is a literal translation : " Betwixt the Lake Ontario and the Lake Erie there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water,...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. This wonderful downfall is about six hundred feet, and is composed of two great cross-streams of water,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 532 pages
...Hennepin in 1678, who gave them a height of 600 ft., saying also : "Betwixt the Lakes Erie and Ontario there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls down a surprising and astonishing height, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel The waters... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 572 pages
...Hennepin in 1678, who gave them a height of 600 ft., saying also : " Betwixt the Lakes Erie and Ontario there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls down a surprising and astonishing height, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel The waters... | |
 | George Washington Holley - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1882 - 302 pages
...sketch which in its principal features is undoubtedly correct, though its perspective and proportions are quite otherwise. He says: "Betwixt the lakes Ontario...and prodigious cadence of water, which falls down in a surprising and astonishing manner, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 528 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. "Pis true Italy and Swedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say that they be sorry patterns... | |
 | 1912 - 892 pages
..."imperial cataract"; "the thunder of water," as the Indians called it; or, as Hennepin described it, that " vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls down after a surprising and most astonishing manner, insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel, those of Italy and... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - America - 1890 - 712 pages
...past two centuries. But their grandeur still remains as unspeakable as it was when he wrote of the "vast and prodigious Cadence- of Water which falls...insomuch that the Universe does not afford its Parallel." Scientists assert that the falls were originally near Lewiston, and were caused by the filling up,... | |
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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. 
