 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...did not find it beautiful. " The waters which fall from this horrible precipice," he says, "do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise more terrible than thunder." The seventeenth century hated the large, the wild, and the awesome in nature. The mood of... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Alaska - 1900 - 396 pages
...does 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... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Alaska - 1900 - 396 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...Wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may he heard more than 15 leagues off'. The sketch he made of the Falls shows several points of difference... | |
 | William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1901 - 432 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." Goat Island and Luna Island. Those who fear the trip on the Maid of the Mist can cross from here to... | |
 | James Baldwin - Northwest, Old - 1901 - 286 pages
...of five hundred feet," he says, " do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making outrageous noise more terrible than that of thunder...dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues distant." In the meanwhile much dissatisfaction was breeding at the little fort at the mouth of the... | |
 | Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences - Natural history - 1901 - 606 pages
...hundred foot high ", and adds that " the Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...Noise, more terrible than that of Thunder, for when the 'Niagara falls are reached from Buffalo by train or electric cars, both of which run at frequent intervals.... | |
 | Amadeus William Grabau - Geology - 1901 - 326 pages
...hundred foot high ", and adds that " the Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...Noise, more terrible than that of Thunder, for when the 'Niagara falls are reached from Buffalo by train or electric cars, both of which run at frequent intervals.... | |
 | Trumbull White - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1902 - 752 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,...roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off." Since Father Hennepin's time, multitudes of poets, artists and prose writers have painted with word... | |
 | William Henry Johnson - History - 1905 - 386 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,...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 Seneca Indians,... | |
 | 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... | |
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The waters which fall from this horrible precipice 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 out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more... 
