 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts above twenty miles off; and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high...with that fury, that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it had been all covered over with a great shower of rain : and in some places we took it... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 508 pages
...see the river how it ran in tbree parts ahove twenty miles off; there appeared ten or twelve falls iu sight, every one as high over the other as a church tower, the water descending with that fury that the rehound made it seem as if it had been all covered over... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Biography & Autobiography - 1844 - 430 pages
...that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts above twenty miles off ; and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high over the other as a church-tower, which fell with that fury that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it had been all... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - America - 1848 - 342 pages
...aboue twentie miles of, and there appeared some ten or twelue ouerfals in sight, euery one as high ouer the other as a Church tower, which fell with that fury, that the rebound of waters made it secme, as if it had beene all couered ouer with a great shower of rayne : and in some places we tooke... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...that mountain see the river bow it ran in three parts above twenty miles off; and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high over the other as a church-tower, which fell with that fury that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it had been all... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 494 pages
...Caroli, he describes as " a wonderful breach of waters, running in three parts; and there appeared some ten or twelve over-falls in sight, every one as high over the other as a church-tower." He was informed that the lake from which the river issued was above a day's journey... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1868 - 820 pages
...that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts above twenty miles off; and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high...the other as a church tower ; which fell with that fur}', that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it i had been all covered over with a great shower... | |
 | Charles Kittredge True - 1877 - 290 pages
...how it ran in those parts above twenty miles off; and there appeared some ten or twelve other falls in sight, every one as high over the other as a church...-tower; which fell with that fury that the rebound of the waters made it seem as if it had been covered over with a great shower of rain; and in some places... | |
 | Episodes - 1880 - 286 pages
...that mountain see the iiver how it ran in three parts, above twenty miles off, and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high over the other as a church-tower, which fell with that fury that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it had been all... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts, above twenty miles off, and there appeared some ten or twelve overfalls in sight, every one as high...with that fury, that the rebound of waters made it seem as if it had been covered all over with a great shower of rain ; and in some places we took it... | |
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When we ran to the tops of the first hills of the plains adjoining to the river, we beheld that wonderful breach of waters, which ran down Caroli: and might from that mountain see the river how it ran in three parts, above twenty miles off, and there... 
