He wrote home joyously now: I am to remain there a month and ransack the islands, the cataracts and volcanoes completely, and write twenty or thirty letters, for which they pay as much money as I would get if I stayed at home.
You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drowned the cocks!
Thee the sun clothes in dazzling beams of glory, And paints with colours of the heavenly bow The clouds that o'er thy dusky cataracts climb.
Indians reported that huge cataracts were hidden in their depths and that in one place the river swept through an underground passage.
Now, giant cataracts began to tumble down from the cliffs of the mountains, and roaring rivers and torrents appeared where rivers had not been suspected before.
The secret sources of the Nile were unknown, and the great river that reaches the Congo coast from the interior was then, so far as men knew, lost in the foam of the cataracts above.
The passing of the last group of cataracts was attended by numerous dangers.
From thecataracts to the mouths of the Nile, everything assumed the aspect of a solid and durable establishment.
Ibrahim Bey, who had some time before retired to Syria, and Murad Bey, who had descended by a long circuit from the cataracts to the environs of Suez, had become the auxiliaries of their former adversaries.
The cataracts which have disappointed the tourist in dry seasons come down in a way that wholly sustains their ancient reputation.
It is a land of cataracts all round about; but to reach the finest of those one must leave the river Wnion and ascend the Mawddach valley, up the beautiful Ganllwyd Glen, and so to the gold mines.
Over the walls hang cataractsof roses, honey-pale clusters of the Banksia rose, and pink bushes of the China rose, growing as we never see them grow with us.
He looked at the reef itself, and the cataracts of white foam and waving haloes of dun spray.
Several glaciers descended in a winding course from the upper great expanse of snow to the sea-coast: they may be likened to great frozen Niagaras; and perhaps these cataracts of blue ice are full as beautiful as the moving ones of water.
They occur only within the limits of the tidal waves; and as the rivulet slowly trickles down, the surf must supply the polishing power of the cataracts in the great rivers.
At the cataracts of the great rivers Orinoco, Nile, and Congo, the syenitic rocks are coated by a black substance, appearing as if they had been polished with plumbago.
They tumble down with sufficient violence and the usual fantastic disposition of their forces; but simply as cataracts within a day's journey of Niagara, they would be nothing.
It is pretty enough, and worth visiting even were it farther from the town than it is; but by those who have hunted out many cataracts in their travels it will not be considered very remarkable.
How many cataracts does the habitual tourist visit at which the waters fail him!
Clark now furnished me with the field notes of the survey which he had made of the Missouri and it's Cataracts cascades &c.
Ballyshannon, and at the end of Lough Erne, whose waters here form two fine cataracts under perpendicular and well wooded rocks.
He therefore made a new treaty with the Nobatæ, as the people between the first and second cataractswere now called.
The deserts surrounding Egypt and the cataracts of the Nile at its southern border isolated this country so that it was not readily disturbed by outside peoples.
From the cataracts on the South to the Mediterranean Sea the Nile pursues its course for over five hundred miles, till within sixty miles of its mouth it divides into branches and forms the part called the Delta.
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