| 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...there had been a similar dislocation of the Table Rock, other sections of which still wear a threatening aspect.^ But this change was not produced, as... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1840 - 320 Seiten
...river as a colossal pillar." From what we have stated, however, if any such change were taking place, it must by this time have afforded some manifest proof...there had been a similar dislocation of the Table Rock, other sections of which still wear a threatening aspect.f But this change was not produced, as... | |
| 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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