 | 1816 - 658 sider
...oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall it beats...at one hundred and fifty yards from the precipice.' The cataract next in magnitude, is thus described : ' The whole Missouri is suddenly stopped by one... | |
 | 1816 - 592 sider
...oppressed by larger masses of the white bam, on all which the sun impresse» the jrightcst colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall, it beats with fury against a ledge of rocks which extends acn^s the river at one huudred and fifty yard» fron» ;he precipice. For many mile» below... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 sider
...then oppressed by large masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall it beats...precipice. From the perpendicular cliff on the north, to tne distance of one hundred and twenty yards, the rocks rise onlv a few feet above the water, and when... | |
 | James Bell - 1831 - 778 sider
...oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall, it beats with fury «gainst a ledge of rocks extending across the river, at lâO jart« from the precipice. Í тот... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 910 sider
...oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall, it beats with fury against a ledge of rocks extending across the river, at 150 yards from the precipice, trom the perpendicular cliff on the north,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 sider
...up in columns of fifteen or twenty feet, which are then oppressed by larger masses of white foam, on which the sun impresses the brightest colors of the...against a ledge of rocks, which extend across the river one hundred and fifty yards distant from die precipice. The river, for three miles below, is a succession... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 sider
...in length, and eighty in perpendicular elevation. This spray is dissipated into a thousand different shapes ; sometimes flying up in columns of fifteen...fall, it beats with fury against a ledge of rocks extending across the river, at one hundred and fifty yards from the precipice. From the perpendicular... | |
 | 1845 - 558 sider
...then oppressed by arger masses of the white foam, on all vhich the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall it beats with fury against a ledge of rocks which extends across the river at one hundred and fifty yards from the precipice. From the perpendicular... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 sider
...oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colours of the rainbow. As it rises from the fall it beats...at one hundred and fifty yards from the precipice." The formidable impression of these cataracts was aggravated by the frequent spectacle of buffaloes... | |
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This spray is dissipated into a thousand shapes, sometimes flying up in columns of fifteen or twenty feet, which are then oppressed by larger masses of the white foam, on all which the sun impresses the brightest colors of the rainbow. As it rises from... 
