 | 1815 - 554 sider
...crossing the point of a hill for a few hundred yards, he saw one of the most beautiful objects in nature : the whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving...the river to the other for at least a quarter of a nrite. Over this it precipitates iteelf in an even, uninterrupted sheet to the perpendicular depth... | |
 | 1815 - 628 sider
...crossing the point of a hill for a few hundred yards, he saw one of the most beautiful objects in nature : the whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving...straight and regular as if formed by art, stretches iUelf from one side of the river to the other for at least a quarter of a mile. Over this it precipitates... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1815 - 460 sider
...crossing the point of a hill for a few hundred yards, he saw one of the most beautiful objects of nature : the whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving...with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art,,stretches itself from one side of the river to the other for at least a quarter of a mile. Over... | |
 | James Bell - 1831 - 778 sider
...crooked fall- Above this fall the Missouri bends suddenly to the northward, and where, 473 vardswide, it is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which without a single niche, tad with an edge as straight and regular as if it had been formed by art, stretches itself ttroas from... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 910 sider
...crooked faU. Above this fall the Missouri bends suddenly to the northward, and where, 4fT3 yards wide, it is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which without...niche, and with an edge as straight and regular as if it had been formed by art, stretches itself across from one side of the river to the other. Over this... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 sider
...miles higher up the river. Here the whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which, with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art, which stretches itself from one side of the river to the other, for at least a quarter of a mile. Over... | |
 | 1835 - 542 sider
...whole Missouri," says the narrative of Lewis and Clarke, "is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, without a single niche, and with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art," — over which the volume of its waters is precipitated " in one even uninterrupted sheet, to the perpendicular... | |
 | 1835 - 538 sider
...whole Missouri," say the narrative of Lewis and Clarke, " is suddenl; stopped by one shelving rock, without a single niche and with an edge as straight and regular as if former by art," — over which the volume of its waters i precipitated " in one even uninterrupted... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 sider
...of nineteen feet perpendicular, and so irregularly, that Captain Lewis termed it the Crooked Fail. shelving rock, which without a single niche, and with an edge as straigjii and regular as if it had been formed by art, stretches itself across from one side of the... | |
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Missouri is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock, which, without a single niche, and with an edge as straight and regular as if formed by art, stretches itself from one side of the river to the other for at least a quarter of a mile. 
