...we meet with the River Niagara . . . The Waters which fall from this vast height, do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...outrageous Noise, more terrible than that of Thunder; . . . dismal roaring may be heard above Fifteen Leagues off.1" In none of these descriptions are the...

...above Six hundred foot high ... The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an...dismal roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off.7 The falls were without equal in the universe; they were 'surprizing,' 'prodigious,' 'astonishing,'...

...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...

...above 6oo foot, and foam and boil in an hideous manner, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than thunder; for when the wind blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be heard more than 1 5 Leagues off. Conrad, the $d emperor of Germany, besieged Guelph, duke of Bavaria, in the city of...

...late-seventeenth-century description of "the prodigious cadence of water," the "horrible precipice," the "foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than thunder." Hennepin's depiction of the fear, gloom, and majestic scale of Niagara has the characteristics...

...and two Falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous...roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off. " The river Niagara having thrown itself down this incredible precipice, continues its impetuous course...

...Harvard Library.) 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...

...manner, insomuch that the Universe does not afford a parallel. The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous...outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder. When the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard 45 miles off." In 1679 La Salle...