 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Niagara River - 1908 - 502 pages
...it violently hurries down the Wild Beasts while endeavouring to pass it, to feed on the other side; they not being able to withstand the force of its Current, which inevitably casts them down head-long above Six hundred foot. ' This wonderful Downfall is compounded of two great Crossstreams... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 236 pages
...Frontenac, on Lake Ontario. Thence, with La Monte and sixteen men, he went on to 196 feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its current, which inevitably casts them down headlong above six hundred foot. This wonderful downfall is compounded of two great cross-streams... | |
 | Edward Payson Morton - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1913 - 116 pages
...it violently hurries down the wild Beasts while endeavouring to pass it to feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its Current, which inevitably casts them down headlong above six hundred foot.' " "Why! are the Falls that high ?" asked James. "Oh, no. Father... | |
 | National Americana Society - United States - 1926 - 926 pages
...it violently hurries down the Wild Beasts while endeavouring to pass it to feed on the other side ; they not being able to withstand the force of its Current which inevitably casts them down headlong above six hundred foot. This wonderful Downfall is compounded of two great cross sections... | |
 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow - American literature - 1927 - 438 pages
...that it violently hurries down the wild Beasts while endeavoring to pass it to feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its Current, which inevitably casts [ 165 ] them them down headlong above Six hundred foot. This wonderful Downfall is compounded of two... | |
 | Victoria Dickenson - Science - 1998 - 344 pages
...it violently hurries down the wild Beasts while endeavouring to pass it to feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its...which inevitably casts them headlong above Six hundred foot high ... The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hideous... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 pages
...that it violently hurries down the wild Beasts while endeavoring to pass it to feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its Current, which inevitably casts them down headlong above Six hundred foot. This wonderful Downfall is compounded of two great Cross-streams... | |
 | Ola Elizabeth Winslow - American literature - 1927 - 436 pages
...that it violently hurries down the wild Beasts while endeavoring to pass it to feed on the other side, they not being able to withstand the force of its Current, which inevitably casts them down headlong above Six hundred foot. This wonderful Downfall is compounded of two great Cross-Streams... | |
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Niagara, which is not above a quarter of a league broad, but is wonderfully deep in some places. It is so rapid above this descent, that it violently hurries down the wild beasts while... 
