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... The United States Democratic Review - Seite 1931839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1893 - 444 Seiten
...above 600 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 15 Leagues off. PR, 1748. A woman once made equal with man becometh his Superior. PR, 1787. 1 Thur.... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1900 - 396 Seiten
...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) - 1900 - 396 Seiten
...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 - 1901 - 432 Seiten
...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. " The River Niagara having thrown itself down this incredible Precipice, continues its impetuous course... | |
| James Baldwin - 1901 - 286 Seiten
...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... | |
| Amadeus William Grabau - 1901 - 326 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences - 1901 - 606 Seiten
...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 - 1902 - 752 Seiten
...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." Since Father Hennepin's time, multitudes of poets, artists and prose writers have painted with word... | |
| William Henry Johnson - 1905 - 386 Seiten
...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 Seneca Indians,... | |
| Isaac Joslin Cox - 1905 - 342 Seiten
...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,...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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