| Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...few cragged hemlock fad fpruce oecs; and »bout half way between this ifland and the eaftern (höre is a rock, lying at the very edge of the fall, in an oblique petition, five or fix feet broad, and thirty or forty long. Thefe falls are peculiarly fi tua ted,... | |
| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 626 pages
...few cragged hemlock and fpruce trees; and about half way between this ifland and the eaftern (bore is a rock, lying at the very edge of the fall, in an oblique pofition, five or fix feet broad, and thirty or forty long. Thefe falls are peculiarly fituated, as... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 644 pages
...few craggcd hemlock and fpruce trees; and about half way between this ifland and the caftern (here is a rock, lying at the very edge of the fall, in an oblique pofition, five or fix feet broad, and thirty or forty long. Thrfe falls arc peculiarly fituated, as... | |
| Jonathan Carver - Dakota language - 1802 - 330 pages
...few cragged liepalock and fpruce trees ; and aboVhalf way between tli!s Ifland and the eafttrn fhore is a rock, lying at the very edge of the fall, in an oblique pofition, that appeared to be about five or fix feet broad, and thirty, or forty long. Thefe falls... | |
| John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...- falls is a small island about forty feet broad, and somewhat longer, on which grow a few scragged hemlock and spruce trees, and about half way between...island and the eastern shore is a rock lying at the veryedge of the fall in an oblique position, five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty long. These... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...appears to be much higher than it really is. In the middle of the stream above stands a small island, on which grow a few hemlock and spruce trees, and...the very edge of the fall, in an oblique position, about five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty long. The surrounding country is extremely beautiful.... | |
| 1855 - 1226 pages
...estimates its width about I forty feet and its length not much more, and "about half way between the island and the eastern shore is a rock lying at the very edge of the fall, that appeared to be about five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty long." During the two generations... | |
| Francis Baily, Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Mississippi River Valley - 1856 - 464 pages
...broad, and somewhat longer, on which grow a few craggy hemlock and sprucetrees; and about half-way between this island and the eastern shore, is a rock lying at the very edge of the falls in an oblique position, five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty long. These falls are peculiarly... | |
| Edward Duffield Neill - History - 1858 - 652 pages
...Falls stands a small island, about forty feel broad, and somewhat longer, on which grow a few cragged hemlock and spruce trees, and about half way between...eastern shore, is a rock, lying at the very edge of the Falls, in an oblique position, that appeared to be about five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1872 - 518 pages
...middle of the Falls, he says, "stands a small island about forty feet broad, on which grow a few cragged hemlock and spruce trees ; and about half way between...very edge of the Fall?, in an oblique position, that appeared to be about five or six feet broad, and thirty or forty feet long. At a little distance below... | |
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