 | Trumbull White - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1902 - 752 pages
...extravagances when we remember that he had never seen anything of the sort before. "Betwixt the lakes of Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious cadence of water, which falls down after a surprising ajid astounding manner; insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true, Italy and... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric industries - 1904 - 228 pages
...wrote of this "cataract of fearful height," it is Hennepin's "great and prodigious cadence of waters, which falls down after a surprising and astonishing...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel," that remains even until to-day as the quaintest and best known of all descriptions thereof. Wars have... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Niagara River - 1908 - 502 pages
...them in the winter of 1678-79, and made the first pictorial representation of them. Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Erie, there is 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. 'T is true,... | |
 | Edward Channing, Marion Florence Lansing - Great Lakes - 1909 - 442 pages
...the "Thunder of Waters," as the Indians called it, — that "vast g X X K -2 \ OF THE ''NIVERSITY Of and prodigious cadence of water which falls down after...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel, those of Italy and Switzerland being but sorry patterns." Hennepin describes this wonderful cataract... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm), James Fullarton Muirhead - Alaska - 1909 - 1038 pages
...seen Niagara Falls was Father ffennepin, a member of La Salle'a 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... | |
 | Great Lakes - 1911 - 484 pages
...wonder, for it makes a descent of fiftyfive feet in a half mile. The cataract itself he describes as "a vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls...insomuch that the universe does not afford its parallel;" and in another sentence he declares, "The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 250 pages
...mark for passers-by. DISCOVERY OF NIAGARA FALLS (1678) BY FATHER LOUIS HENNEPIN 1 Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Erie, there is 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. "Tis true,... | |
 | Edward Payson Morton - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1913 - 116 pages
...spelling is not quite like that of today, and a good many words begin with capitals. Hennepin wrote: 'Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast...insomuch that the Universe does not afford its Parallel. At the foot of this horrible Precipice, we meet the River Niagara, which is not above half a quarter... | |
 | Otto Fowle - Great Lakes (North America) - 1925 - 528 pages
...the pettiness of man, the imperial cataract burst upon his sight."1 Hennepin describes the Falls as "a vast and prodigious cadence of water which falls...manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford a parallel."4 A place was selected for the ship-yard at the mouth of Cayuga Creek, about two leagues... | |
 | Edward Dean Adams - Hydroelectric power plants - 1927 - 484 pages
...description of the fall of the river Niagara, which is to be seen betwixt the Lake Ontario and that of Erie. Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast...falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, in so much that the Universe does not afford its Parallel. 'Tis true, Italy and Suedeland boast of... | |
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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. 
