 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 354 Seiten
...unsupported, and tumble down from time to time, so that the cataract is made to recede southwards. The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...our guide in 1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle of the ledge of limestone at the lesser fall since... | |
 | William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger - 1846 - 258 Seiten
...unsupported, and tumble down from time to time, so that the cataract is made to recede southwards. The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...our guide in 1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle ledge of limestone at the lesser fall, since the year... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 Seiten
...unsupported, and tumble down from time to time, so that the cataract is made to recede southwards. The descent of huge rocky fragments of the undermined...have shaken the adjacent country like an earthquake." In particular districts the simple dissolving power of water produces alterations of the most serious... | |
 | 1907 - 874 Seiten
...and contour. Traditional information as to changes in the American Fall is summarized by Lyell : " The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...our guide in 1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle of the ledge of limestone lit the lesser fall since... | |
 | New York (State) Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara - 1903 - 1754 Seiten
...Fall is summarized by Lyell :° The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the undermined 1'mestone at the Horseshoe Fall, in 1828, and another at the American Fall, in 181 S, are said to have shaken the adjacent country like an earthquake. According to the statement... | |
 | Henry Gannett - 1906 - 644 Seiten
...position and contour. Traditional information as to changes in the American Fall is summarized by Lyell:" The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...earthquake. According to the statement of our guide in-1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle of the.... | |
 | Charles Mason Dow - 1921 - 774 Seiten
...unsupported, and tumble down from time to time, so that the cataract is made to recede southwards. The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...our guide in 1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle of the ledge of limestone at the lesser fall since... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1921 - 784 Seiten
...unsupported, and tumble down from time to time, so that the cataract is made to recede southwards. The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the...our guide in 1841, Samuel Hooker, an indentation of about forty feet has been produced in the middle of the ledge of limestone at the lesser fall since... | |
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The sudden descent of huge rocky fragments of the undermined limestone at the Horseshoe Fall, in 1828, and another at the American Fall, in 1818, are said to have shaken the adjacent country like an earthquake. According to the statement of our guide... 