Guide to the Geology and Paleontology of Niagara Falls and VicinityUniversity of the State of New York, 1901 - 284 Seiten |
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Seite 7 - 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 than fifteen leagues off.
Seite 11 - A catalogue of the flowering and fern-like plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity of the falls of Niagara, by David F.
Seite 253 - Observations on the falls of Niagara, with references to the changes which have taken place, and are now in progress. Am. jour, sci. 2d ser. 23:85-95. 1857. Observations on the whirlpool and the rapids below the falls of Niagara; designed by illustrations to account for the origin of both.
Seite 8 - To all who are of this mind, the strengthening of desire on my part to see and know Niagara Falls, as far as it is possible for them to be seen and known, will be intelligible. On the first evening of my visit, I met, at the head of Biddle's Stair, the guide to the Cave of the Winds.
Seite 65 - The tilting of the land, which is recorded in the deformed beaches, has not yet ceased, as recent investigations in the lake regions clearly prove. Mr Gilbert has made an extended study of this problem ; and he has been led to the assumption " that the whole lake region is being lifted on one side or depressed on the other, so that its plane is bodily canted toward the southsouthwest, and that the rate of change is such that the two ends of a line 100 miles long and lying in a southsouthwest direction...
Seite 16 - Und es wallet und siedet und brauset und zischt, Wie wenn Wasser mit Feuer sich mengt, Bis zum Himmel spritzet der dampfende Gischt, Und Well' auf Well' sich ohn' Ende drängt, Und wie mit des fernen Donners Getose Entstürzt es brüllend dem finstern Schoße.
Seite 12 - It is impossible to resist the effect on the imagination. It is as if the fountains of the great deep were being broken up, and as if a new deluge were coming on the world. The impression is rather increased than diminished by the perspective of the low wooded banks on either shore, running down to a vanishing point and seeming to be lost in the advancing waters. An apparently shoreless sea tumbling towards one is a very grand and a very awful sight. Forgetting there what one knows, and giving oneself...
Seite 7 - Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water, which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel.
Seite 223 - Glabella tumid, widest in front. Free cheeks continuous, united anteriorly. Suture extending from in front of the genal angles inward to the eyes, and then forward around the glabella. Eyes generally large, and always with distinct facets, schizochroal. Thorax with eleven segments, with grooved pleura. Pygidium usually large and of many segments ; limb ribbed ; margin entire or dentate.
Seite 12 - The crests of the breakers, the leaping and the rushing of the waters, are all seen against the clouds, as they are seen in the ocean when the ship from which we look is in the " trough of the sea." It is impossible to- resist the effect on the imagination. It is as if the fountains of the great deep were being broken up, and as if a new Deluge were coming on the world.