 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 720 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 1800 feet, or more than a third of a mile, broad,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 280 pagina’s
...exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in kss than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 1800 feet, or more than a third of a mile, broad,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 376 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 1 65 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horse-shoe Fall, is 1800 feet,... | |
 | 1851 - 622 pagina’s
...wonders ot * to feel iu full mnjmificence ..... "When the N' the rapids it descends over a limestone bed about fifty feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 1C5 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horse-shoe Fall, is 1800 feet,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 304 pagina’s
...to 6 correspond with those referring to similar colours in the map of the Niagara district, PI. III. Vol. I. p. 30., in which the usual position of North...dimensions of these and the ravine, see Vol. I. p. 3 1 . The river then flows for seven miles in the ravine with a fall of 100 feet. The first notch on... | |
 | Adam Lillie - 1855 - 316 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a Limestone bed about 150 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The deep narrow chasm below the great cataract is from 200 to 400 yards wide, and 300 feet deep ; and... | |
 | Adam Lillie - 1855 - 312 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a Limestone bed about 150 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The deep narrow chasm below the great cataract is from 200 to 400 yards wide, and 300 feet deep ; and... | |
 | Charles Mason Dow - 1921 - 764 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 1800 feet, or more than a third of a mile, broad,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1921 - 784 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 1 65 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 1 800 feet,... | |
 | Charles Mason Dow - 1921 - 776 pagina’s
...scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 1 65 feet perpendicularly at the Falls. The largest of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 1 800 feet,... | |
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This lake-like scenery continues for about fifteen miles, during which the fall of the river scarcely exceeds as many feet, but on reaching the rapids, it descends over a limestone bed about 50 feet in less than a mile, and is then thrown down about 165... 