The Falls of Niagara, Their Evolution and Varying Relations to the Great Lakes: Characteristics of the Power, and the Effects of Its DiversionDepartment of Mines, Geological Survey Branch, 1907 - Počet stran: 494 |
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American falls ancient apex banks borings boulders breadth buried channel buried valley Canadian falls Canadian side cañon Cantilever bridge cascade cataract Chapter Chippawa Clair clay Clinton limestone cove cubic feet David valley deep channel depth descent discharge distance drainage drift eastern side edge elevation Erie basin excavated extending Falls-Chippawa valley feet above Lake feet per second fluctuations foot Foster flats Georgian bay Goat island shelf gorge height Hubbard point Iroquois Iroquois beach Lake Erie Lake Huron lake level Lake Ontario level of Lake lower mean Medina Medina shale miles mouth narrow Niagara escarpment Niagara falls Niagara limestone Niagara river Nipissing occurred Ontario Power outlet of Lake Plate Port Colborne pre-glacial present rainfall rate of recession reaching receded reduced refilled rise rocky sand sandstone shale shore line shown shows slope soundings surface survey Table Rock House terrace Upper rapids volume western Whirlpool rapids
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Strana 14 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Strana 431 - This wonderful downfall is compounded of two great cross-streams of water, and two falls, with an isle sloping along the middle of it. The waters which fall from this vast height, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder; for when the wind blows from off the south, their dismal roaring may be heard above fifteen leagues off.
Strana 437 - It was formerly thought impossible for any body living to come at the island that is in the middle of the fall : but an accident that happened twelve years ago, or thereabouts, made it appear otherwise; the history is this. Two Indians of the Six Nations went out from Niagara Fort, to hunt upon an island that is in the middle of the river, or strait, above the great fall, on which there used to be abundance of deer. They took some French brandy with them, from the fort, which they tasted several...
Strana 438 - ... perish themselves. They took leave of all their friends as if they were going to death. Each had two such poles in his hands, to set against the bottom of the stream, to keep them steady.
Strana 439 - I stood, but above the water. When the wind carries the vapours from that place, the rainbow is gone, but appears again as soon as new vapours come.
Strana 441 - The fall of this vast body of water produces a sound which is frequently heard at the distance of twenty miles, and a sensible tremulous motion in the earth for some poles round*.
Strana 463 - The basins of Lakes Ontario and Huron are taken for consideration. The previous paper, upon the course of the ancient St. Lawrence, shows that the Huron and Ontario basins are sections of the former great St. Lawrence valley, which was bounded, especially upon the southern side, by high and precipitous escarpments, some of which are submerged.
Strana 435 - Liar; he writes of what he saw in places where he never was. 'tis true he saw this Fall: but as it is the way of some travellers to magnify every thing, so has he done with regard to the fall of Niagara. This humour of travellers, has occasioned me many disappointments in my travels, having seldom been so happy as to find the wonderful things that had been related by others. For my part, who am not fond of the Marvellous, I like to see things just as they are, and so to relate them.
Strana 465 - In amount than farther northward at the Trent outlet) eventually lifted up a rocky barrier and formed Erie into a lake in recent times, thus making Erie the youngest of all the lakes. The beaches about Cleveland are not those of separated Lake Erie, but belong to the older and original Lake Warren. NOTB.— To distinguish from the modern, the ancient valley of the St. Lawrence, above described, is named the
Strana 437 - In the months of September and October, such abundant quantities of dead waterfowl are found every morning below the Fall, on the shore, that the garrison of the fort for a long time live chiefly upon them; besides the fowl, they find also several sorts of dead fish, also deer, bears, and other animals which have tried to cross the water above the fall ; the larger animals are generally found broken to pieces.