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Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s, whilethe darkness of the awful gulf below isenhanced by the unintermitted roaringand concussions of the tremendous mass-es of water dashed together. The loftycolumn of mist, which for ever stands,like a cloud, over this scene of noiseand fury, is sometimes dark as a thun-der-storm, but more frequently of asnowy wliiteness, and illuminated andpainted by rainbows, whose arches varyin their )iosition and direction with thecourse of the sun. Night casts a toneof majesty over the scene, as difficult tobe duly described as to be witnessedwithout emotion, especially when themoon silvers the rocks, the water, andthe spray, or when, in winter, it fallsupon the forest-trees, glazed with thefiozen spray, and upon the immenseicicles, oflen more than a hundred feetin length. It is almost impossible for any livingthina: to survive the descent of this aw-ful cataract. Deer and other animalshave sometimes been carried down,while attempting to swim across theriver above : and, in several instances,
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180 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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  • bookcollection:americana
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