| Isaac Joslin Cox - Explorers - 1905 - 338 pages
...falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this vast height do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; so that when the wind blows from the south their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen leagues... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada - 1907 - 530 pages
...an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...be heard more than fifteen leagues off. The river having thrown itself down the incredible precipice continues its impetuous course for two leagues together... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada, Joseph William Spencer - Niagara Falls - 1907 - 550 pages
...an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...be heard more than fifteen leagues off. The river having thrown itself down the incredible precipice continues its impetuous course for two leagues together... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada, Joseph William Spencer - Geology - 1907 - 536 pages
...an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen longnes off. The river having thrown itself down the incredible precipice continues its impetuous course... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada, Joseph William Spencer - Niagara Falls - 1907 - 560 pages
...an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than f;fteen leagues off. The river having thrown itself down the incredible precipice continues its impetuous... | |
| Geological Survey of Canada, Joseph William Spencer - Geology - 1907 - 540 pages
...The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous mnmier imaginable, making an outrageous noise more terrible...be heard more than fifteen leagues off. The river having thrown itself down the incredible precipice continues its impetuous course for two leagues together... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Alaska - 1907 - 472 pages
...doea not afford its Parallel . . . The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous Noise, more terrible than that of Thundery for when the Wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than 15 leagues... | |
| Charles Whibley - United States - 1908 - 360 pages
...sloping along the middle of it. The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets of the seventeenth century, — " horrible," "hideous," "outrageous," "dismal."... | |
| Archer Butler Hulbert - Niagara River - 1908 - 502 pages
...Falls, with an Isle slopeing along the middle of it. The Waters which fall from this vast height do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable,...terrible than that of Thunder; for when the Wind blows from off the South, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen Leagues off. The River Niagara... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm), James Fullarton Muirhead - Alaska - 1909 - 1038 pages
...not afford its Parallel. . . . The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than 15 leagues off.' The sketch he made of the Falls shows several points of difference from their present... | |
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