 | Canada - 1849 - 170 pages
...with the rocks as it pours down the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the Ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantastic forms.' " The Horseshoe or Canadian Fall is not quite circular, but is marked... | |
 | Canada - 1849 - 166 pages
...with the rocks as it pours down tht declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the Ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...up and bound over some impediment, then break into silvee foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantasti forms.' " The Horseshoe or... | |
 | Jennet Roy - America - 1854 - 282 pages
...with the rocks as it pours down the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the Ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fastastic forms." 34.. The Horse or Canadian Fall is not quite circular, but is marked... | |
 | John Disturnell - Canada - 1855 - 272 pages
...with rocks as it pours over the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantastic forms. " The Canadian, or Horse Shoe Fall, is not quite circular, but is marked... | |
 | Jennet Roy - Canada - 1856 - 306 pages
...frets like the breakers of the Ocean. Huj'e mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming hke an emerald, rise up and bound over some impediment,...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantastic forms." 34. The Horse-Shoe or Canadian Fall is not quite circular, but is marked... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...with the rocks as it pours down the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantastic forms. A little below the Falls, the Niagara resumes its usual soft and gentle... | |
 | Henry Beaumont Small - Canada - 1866 - 260 pages
...with the rocks as it pours down the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the ocean. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming...silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful and fantastic forms." The first impression formed at sight of the cataract from the Canada... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1883 - 252 pages
...if coming to overwhelm you. Huge mounds of water, smooth, transparent, and gleaming like emeralds, bound over some impediment, then break into silver foam, which leaps into the air in fantastic forms. G. A little below the Falls, the Niagara resumes its usual soft and gentle beauty.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1921 - 784 pages
...emerald, or rather like the more delicate hue of the chrysopaz, rise up and bound over some unseen impediment, then break into silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful fantastic forms; and so it rushes on, whirling, boiling, dancing, sparkling along, with a... | |
 | Charles Mason Dow - Niagara Falls - 1921 - 764 pages
...emerald, or rather like the more delicate hue of the chrysopaz, rise up and bound over some unseen impediment, then break into silver foam, which leaps into the air in the most graceful fantastic forms; and so it rushes on, whirling, boiling, dancing, sparkling along, with a... | |
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The whole mighty river comes rushing over the brow of a hill, and, as you look up at it, seems as if coming down to overwhelm you ; then meeting with the rocks as it pours down the declivity, it boils and frets like the breakers of the Ocean. Huge mounds... 