 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 431 pages
...thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the S. their dismal roaring may be 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... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881
...thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the S. their dismal roaring may be heard more than 15 leagues. The River Niagara, having thrown itself down this...incredible precipice, continues its impetuous course fur 2 leagues together .... with an inexpressible rapidity The two brinks of it are so prodigious high... | |
 | George Washington Holley - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1882 - 183 pages
...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... | |
 | William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Mark Twain - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1893 - 225 pages
...the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off.2 " 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 inexpressible rapidity. But having passed that, its... | |
 | William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1901 - 353 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 inex979 THE NIAGARA BOOK. pressible rapidity. But... | |
 | Isaac Joslin Cox - Explorers - 1905
...that we could not reach the River Niagara before the 3Oth of July. Father Gabriel and I went overland to view the great fall, the like whereof is not in...two leagues with an inexpressible rapidity ; and the banks are so prodigious high that it makes one tremble to look steadily on the water, rolling along... | |
 | Isaac Joslin Cox - Explorers - 1905
...that we could not reach the River Niagara before the 3Oth of July. Father Gabriel and I went overland to view the great fall, the like whereof is not in...two leagues with an inexpressible rapidity ; and the banks are so prodigious high that it makes one tremble to look steadily on the water, rolling along... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Niagara River (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1908 - 319 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 pass'd that,... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912
...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,... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 408 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 abovementioned, with an inexpressible Rapidity: But having passed that,... | |
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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... 
