 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 - Page 1931839Full view - About this book
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1811 - 446 pages
...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." COSMETICKS ARE demanded in proportion to the deficiency of real charms. Witness the following epigram... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 444 pages
...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...dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues oil." COSMETICKS ARE demanded in proportion to the deficiency of real charms. Witness the following... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 486 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,...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... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 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 terri67 blc than that of thunder ; so that when the wind blows from the south, their dismal roaring... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 474 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 tcrrible than" that bf thunder ; so that when the wind blows from the south, their dismal roaring may... | |
 | John Maude - History - 1826 - 386 pages
...and two Falls, with an Isle sloping across the middle of it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous...blows out of the South, their dismal roaring may be FALLS UP NIAGARA. 139 Perceiving a very heavy thunder-gust coming on about 3 p. M. I returned to Chippawa,... | |
 | John Maude - History - 1826 - 388 pages
...two Falli, with an Isle sloping across the middle of " it. The Waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam "and boil after the most hideous...that of thunder; for when " the wind blows out of the Sooth, their dismal roaring may be Perceiving a very heavy thunder-gust coming on about 3 p. M. I returned... | |
 | Vandewater, Robert J. - 1834 - 122 pages
...and two falls, with an isle sloping across 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." it were, with very terror, into a dark caldron below, maddened and lashed into foam white as the driven... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 632 pages
...insomuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel. 'Tis true Italy and Suedeland boast of some Mich things, but we may well say they are but sorry patterns...to the Iroquois in the neighbourhood. Of this party Hennepin was one, and he gives a detailed account of these voyages. He considers the Indian politeness... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...of it. The Waters which fall from this horrible Precipice, do foam and boyl after the most hldeons manner imaginable, making an Outrageous Noise, more...roaring may be heard more than Fifteen Leagues off." These are the epithets of the seventeenth century .—"horrible," "hideous," "outrageous," "dismal."... | |
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