 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 494 pages
...directed his steps; and the noise, increasing as he approached, soon became too powerful to be ascribed to any thing but the Great Falls of the Missouri. Having...after first hearing the sound, he reached the falls. The hills, as he approached the river, were difficult of transit, and two hundred feet high. Down these... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 488 pages
...increasing as he approached, soon became too powerful to be ascribed to any thing but the Great Palls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after first hearing the sound, he reached the falls. The hills, as he approached the river, were difficult of transit, and two hundred feet high. Down these... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, William Franklin Raynolds - America - 1868 - 198 pages
...steps, and the noise increasing as he approached, soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the great falls of the Missouri. Having travelled...first hearing the sound, he reached the falls about 12 o'clock. The hills as he approached were difficult of access and 200 feet high. Down these he hurried... | |
 | bvt. brig. gen. w. f. raynolds - 1868 - 184 pages
...column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point he directed his steps, and the noise increasing as he approached, soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the great falls of the Missouri. Having'travelled seven miles after first hearing the... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1893 - 488 pages
...became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the Great Falls of the Missouri. Having traveled seven miles after first hearing the sound, he reached...hills as he approached were difficult of access and 200 feet high. Down these he hurried with impatience ; and, seating himself on some rocks under the... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1900 - 400 pages
...became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the Great Falls of the Missouri. Having trav elled seven miles after first hearing the sound, he reached...two hundred feet high : down these he hurried with imoatience, and, seating himself on some rocks undei FALLS OF THE MISSOURI. 223 the centre of the lalls,... | |
 | Richard Henry Jesse, Edward Archibald Allen - American literature - 1901 - 404 pages
...became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the Great Falls of the Missouri. Having traveled seven miles after first hearing the sound, he reached...impatience ; and, seating himself on some rocks under the center of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object, which since the creation... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1902 - 440 pages
...column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point he directed his steps, and the noise increasing as he approached soon became too tremendous...he hurried with impatience and seating himself on so me rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1903 - 580 pages
...column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point he directed his steps, and the noise, increasing as he approached, soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the great falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after first hearing the... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 428 pages
...column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Toward this point he directed his steps; and the noise, increasing as he approached, soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for anything but the Great Falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after first hearing the... | |
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... sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point... 
