 | 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... | |
 | Trumbull White - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1902 - 752 pages
...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
...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, Italy and Suedeland boast of some such Things; but we may well say they are but sorry Patterns,... | |
 | 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
...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 Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner... | |
 | Great Lakes (North America) - 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 down...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
...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, Italy and Suedeland boast of some such things; but we may well say they are but sorry patterns,... | |
 | Edward Payson Morton - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1913 - 116 pages
...good many words begin with capitals. Hennepin wrote: 'Betwixt the Lakes Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water which falls down...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
...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 down...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... | |
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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. 
