 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 374 Seiten
...which Charlevoix corrects. Both agree as to the appearance and relative position of the different " it must by this time have afforded some manifest proof...there had been a similar dislocation of the Table Bock, other sections of which still wear a threatening aspect.l- But this change was not produced,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 384 Seiten
...measure to protect them against the action of the waves. Even the loosest sand, when within high- water mark, acquires a comparatively firm and smooth surface....Rock, other sections of which still wear a threatening aspect.t But this change was not produced, as is commonly supposed, by the wearing away of the rocky... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 390 Seiten
...them, and not opposing any resistance to their course, is little liable to be disintegrated by then- action. We are not aware of such an effect being produced...Rock, other sections of which still wear a threatening aspect.^ But this change was not produced, as is commonly supposed, by the wearing away of the rocky... | |
 | 1840 - 824 Seiten
...of the rocks in the middle of the great fall. Of this an example occurred on the 28th Dec., 1 828, when a huge fragment fell with a crash which shook...adjoining inn, and was felt at the distance of two mil™. It destroyed, in a great measure, the angular or horse-shoe form, and, by rendering the line... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 Seiten
...flood and the precipice. An immense fragment fell on the 28th of December, 1828, with a crash that shook the glass vessels in the adjoining inn, and was felt at the distance of two miles from the spot. By this disintegration, the angular or horse-shoe form of the great fall was lessened,... | |
 | 1852 - 702 Seiten
...flood and the precipice. An immense fragment fell on the 28th of December, 1828, with a crash that shook the glass vessels in the adjoining inn, and was felt at the distance of two miles from tbe spot. By this disintegration, the angular or horse-shoe form of the great fall was lessened,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 Seiten
...flood and the precipice. An immense fragment fell on the 28th of December, 1828, with a crash that shook the glass vessels in the adjoining inn, and was felt at the distance of two miles from the spot. By this disintegration, the angular or horse-shoo form of the great fall was lessened,... | |
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... action. We are not aware of such an effect being produced on any other cataract, nor does Mr Lyell refer to any, although several falls are known to have existed from the remotest antiquity. The statements made by the neighbouring inhabitants are... 