 There is a descent of perhaps 75 or 80 feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam. We can land just above, but there is no foothold on either side by which we can make...  The United States - Page 76by Henry Gannett - 1898 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventy five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1875 - 466 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....ledges and pinnacles of rock obstructing the river. Tnere is a descent of, perhaps, seventy five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 758 pages
...the West: Washington, 1875, pp. 83, 85, 193-4. 3. Running a Sapid. The dangers of the navigation in rivers, like the Colorado, winding through a series...perhaps 75 or 80 feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad white foam. We can... | |
 | Samuel Edward Dawson, Henry Gannett - Canada - 1898 - 548 pages
...little, the story of creation." — Exploration of the Colorado River of the West: Washington, 1875, pp. 83, 85, 193, 194. The dangers of the navigation...perhaps 75 or 80 feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam. We... | |
 | Science - 1898 - 264 pages
...buttresses, bristling with wind and wave-polished spires, extend far out into the river. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead and approach it very cautiously....and at last we find ourselves above a long broken falls, with ledges and pinnacles of rock obstructing the river. There is a descent of perhaps seventy-five... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventy-five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventyfive or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the... | |
 | Grove Karl Gilbert - 1903 - 98 pages
...and the scientific interest — find their superlative expression. "About eleven o'clock [August 14] we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventy-five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1915 - 332 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventy-five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...nearly a thousand feet of the lower part of the walls are composed of this rock. About eleven o'clock we hear a great roar ahead, and approach it very cautiously....obstructing the river. There is a descent of, perhaps, seventy-five or eighty feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on... | |
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