This wonderful downfall is compounded of two great cross-streams of water, and two 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, making an outrageous... Niagara: Its History and Geology, Incidents and Poetry - Page 17by George Washington Holley - 1872 - 165 pagesFull view - About this book
| Archer Butler Hulbert - Niagara River - 1908 - 502 pages
...two 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... | |
| Great Lakes - 1911 - 484 pages
...another sentence he declares, "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 thunder." So impressed was Father Hennepin that he estimated the "horrible precipice" to be 600 feet high. In... | |
| Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 250 pages
...two 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 river Niagara... | |
| Edward Payson Morton - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1913 - 116 pages
...two 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, making an outrageous Noise, more terrible than Thunder; for when the Wind blows from off the South, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen... | |
| American literature - 1913 - 910 pages
...Waters," goes on the quaint narrative, " which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyle after the most hideous Manner imaginable, making an...outrageous Noise more terrible than that of Thunder." The good Jesuit would seem to have been deeply moved by this " dismal Roaring ;" for in the curious... | |
| Louise Hasbrouck Zimm - 1916 - 264 pages
...two 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." They were, in all... | |
| Orville O. Hiestand - Travel - 1922 - 420 pages
...high. "This wonderful downfall is composed of two cross streams of water, and two falls with an aisle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall...outrageous noise more terrible than that of thunder." One can easily see that the imaginative and excitable Frenchman is under the spell of the great cataract.... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Alaska - 1922 - 588 pages
...horrible Precipice do foam and boyl after the most hideoua manner imaginable, making an outrageous Noiae, more terrible than that of Thunder; for when the Wind...blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be beard more than 15 leagues off'. The sketch he made of the Falls shows several pointa of difference... | |
| National Americana Society - United States - 1926 - 926 pages
...two 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, making an outrageous Noise, more terrible than Thunder ; for when the wind blows from off the South their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen... | |
| 1901 - 858 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.... | |
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