 | 1866 - 956 páginas
...being still further down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown pioco ; on measuring tho width of this deep cleft by sextant, it was found...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Fulls, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar ; and this is Mosi-оя-пшуа,... | |
 | English cyclopaedia - 1869 - 710 páginas
...the width of this deep cleft by sextant, it was found at Garden Island, its narrowest part, to be 80 yards, and at its broadest somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Fall, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar ; and this is Mori-oa-Tunya,... | |
 | 1865 - 848 páginas
...the actual bottom being still further down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown piece. On measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant,...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara fall, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar; and this is Mosiva-tunya, or... | |
 | 1866 - 404 páginas
...a sloping projection, probably 50 feet from the water below, the actual bottom being still farther down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crownpiece....somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a.deafening roar ; and this is Mosi-oa-tunya,... | |
 | 1866 - 604 páginas
...the actual bottom being still further down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown piece ; on measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant,...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a fall mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar ; and this is Mosi-oatnnya,... | |
 | 1866 - 582 páginas
...the actual bottom being still further down. The white cloth now appeared the sizo of a crown piece ; on measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant,...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a fall mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar; and this is Mosi-oatunya,... | |
 | 1866 - 586 páginas
...the actual bottom being still further down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown piece ; on measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant,...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a fall mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar ; and this is Mosi-oatunya,... | |
 | Alexander Gruar Forbes - 1874 - 450 páginas
...had paid out three hundred and ten feet, the weight rested on a sloping projection, probably fifty feet from the water below, the actual bottom being...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar ; and this is the Mosi-oatunya,... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - 1875 - 582 páginas
...sloping projection, probably fifty feet from the water below, the actual bottom being still farther down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown-piece;...somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a full mile wide, rolls with a deafening roar; and this is the Mosi-oatunya,... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 páginas
...the actual bottom being still farther down. The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown piece. On measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant,...broadest somewhat more. Into this chasm, of twice the 4S3 489 depth of Niagara Falls, the river, a full mile wide, roars with a deafening roar; and this... | |
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Mosi-oa-tunya, or the Victoria Falls. "Looking from Garden Island down to the bottom of the abyss, nearly half a mile of water, which has fallen over that portion of the falls to our right, or west of our point of... 
