Sketches of Upper Canada ...: To which are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class; and Some Recollections of the United States of AmericaOliver & Boyd, 1822 - 1 pages |
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Page 207 - I approached him, and, notwithstanding his injunction to silence, inquired what he did there. " Me watch to see the deer kneel," replied he; " this is Christmas night, and all the deer fall upon their knees to the Great Spirit and look up.
Page 111 - ... less distinctly heard than it would otherwise be, as the profusion of spray renders the air near the cataract a very indifferent conductor of sound. " The road to the bottom of the Fall presents many more difficulties than that which leads to the Table Rock. After leaving the Table Rock, the traveller must proceed down the river nearly half a mile, where he will come to a small chasm in the bank, in which there is a spiral staircase enclosed in a wooden building. By descending...
Page 175 - Again, supposing that each square yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yards in the whole space, multiplied by three, would give two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventytwo thousand pigeons ! — an almost inconceivable multitude, and yet probably far below the actual amount.
Page 110 - Horseshoe Fall, though very great, is infinitely less than might be expected, and varies in loudness according to the state of the atmosphere. When the weather is clear and frosty, it may be distinctly heard at the distance of ten or twelve miles...
Page 109 - I enthiMas&caHy contemplated the indescribable scene. Any person, who has nerve enough (as I had), may plunge his hand into the water of the Great Fall after it is projected over the precipice, merely by lying down flat, with his face beyond the edge of the Table Rock, and stretching out his arm to its utmost extent.
Page 111 - Fall presents many more difficulties than that which leads to the Table Rock. After leaving the Table Rock, the traveller must proceed down the river nearly half a mile, where he will come to a small chasm in the bank, in which there is a spiral staircase enclosed in a wooden building. By descending this stair, which is seventy or eighty feet, perpendicular height, he will find himself under the precipice on the top of which he formerly walked. A high but sloping bank extends from its base to the...
Page 111 - ... their surfaces, fossil shells, and the organic remains of a former .world; thus sublimely leading the mind to contem'plate the convulsions which nature has undergone since the creation. As the traveller advances...
Page 110 - Fall, is shattered the moment it drops over the rock, and loses, as it descends, in a great measure, the character of a fluid, being divided into pyram'idal-shaped fragments, the bases of which are turned upwards. The surface of the gulf, below the cataract, presents a very singular aspect ; seeming, as it were, filled with an immense quantity of hoar frost, which is agitated by small and rapid undulations. The particles of water are dazzlingly white, and do not apparently unite together, as might...
Page 107 - It derives its name from the circumstance of its projecting beyond the cliffs that support it like the leaf of a table. To gain this position, it is necessary to descend a steep bank, and to follow a path that winds among shrubbery and trees, which entirely conceal from the eye the scene that awaits him who traverses it. When near the termination of this road, a few steps carried me beyond all these obstructions, and a magnificent amphitheatre of cataracts burst upon my view with appalling suddenness...