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" The vast comparative erosive energy of the Horseshoe Fall comes strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the Niagara. Here the Horseshoe Fall... "
Great Rivers of the World: As Seen and Described by Famous Writers - Page 309
edited by - 1908 - 358 pages
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 42

1873 - 1082 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Here the Horseshoe Fall was the real excavator. It out the rock and formed the precipice over which the American Fall tumbles. But since its formation...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

1873 - 808 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Goat Island, and is now doubling back to excavate a channel parallel to the length of the island. This point, I have just learned, has not escaped the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 18; Volume 81

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Goat Island, and is now doubling back to excavate a channel parallel to the length of the island. This point, I have just learned, has not escaped the...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 27

1873 - 598 pages
...devised by my assistant, Mr. John Cottrell. Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...erosive action of the American Fall has been almost nU, while the Horseshoe has cut its way for 500 yards across the end of Goat Island, and is now doubling...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 7

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 588 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compare-! together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the Niagara. Here the Horseshoe Fall WM the real excavator. It cut the rock and formed the precipice over which the American Fall tumbles....
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The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of ..., Volume 7

Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the Niagara. Hero the Horseshoe Fall was the real excavator. It cut the rock and formed the precipice over which...
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews

John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Horseshoe has cut its way for 500 yards across the end of Croat Island, and is now doubling back to excavate its channel parallel to the length of the island....
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 3

1878 - 818 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Goat Island, and is now doubling back to excavate a channel parallel to the length of the island. This point, I have just learned, has not escaped the...
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and ..., Volume 1

John Tyndall - 1879 - 662 pages
...strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the...Horseshoe has cut its way for 500 yards across the end of Croat Island, and is now , doubling back to excavate its channel parallel to the length of the island....
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and ..., Volume 1

John Tyndall - 1892 - 482 pages
...the depth of the centre of the ancient river varied, being narrowest where that depth was greatest. The vast comparative erosive energy of the Horseshoe...and formed the precipice, over which the American Full tumbles. But since its formation, the erosive action of the American Fall has been almost nil,...
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