 | Richard Lovett - United States - 1891 - 246 pages
...description, written in 1678. We give also a little of his verbal description : ' Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Erie there is a vast and prodigious cadence...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. This wonderful downfall is compounded of two cross-streams of water and two falls, with an isle sloping... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm), James Fullarton Muirhead - Mexico - 1893 - 752 pages
...seen Niagara Falls was Father Bennepin, a member of La Salle's party in 1678. He described them as (a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water, which falls down after a surprizing and astonishing manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford its Parallel' . . . The... | |
 | [Cassier's magazine]. - Niagara River (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1895 - 248 pages
...published his "New Discovery," in which he gives the well known description of Niagara Falls, commencing "betwixt the lakes Ontario and Erie there is a vast...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel." Later on, in the same work, he describes them again, giving their height as 600 feet. He also gives... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Europe - 1895 - 492 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. 'T is true Italy and Swedeland boast of some such things, but we may well say that they be sorry patterns... | |
 | Peter Augustus Porter - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1901 - 326 pages
...1683, describes them, which description he amplified in his " New Discovery," 1697, in these words : " Betwixt the lakes Ontario and Erie there is a vast...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel," which is as true to-day as it was over two centuries ago. He, however, gave the height of the Falls... | |
 | William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1901 - 432 pages
...Chevalier de la Salle — the first white men who ever saw Niagara. The former writes of it as follows: " A vast and prodigious Cadence of Water which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, in so much that the Universe does not afford its parallel. . . . This 30 WHAT TO HER. Wonderful Downfall... | |
 | Amadeus William Grabau - Geology - 1901 - 326 pages
...previous descriptions save those given him by his Indian allies and guides. He speaks of the falls as " a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water which falls down after a surprizing and astonishing manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford its Parallel'1.3 He considered... | |
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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. 
