This visit is worth mention, since he now for the first time saw the scenery of waterfalls and mountains.
It therefore presents a bold escarpment at its outcrop, and occasions waterfalls wherever streams of water cross it.
What is the effect of waterfallson the abrading action of rivers?
There are no more rapids or waterfalls to be passed, so that the remainder of the voyage can be performed without danger," he observed.
Noisy waterfalls filled the glens with spray, and built rainbows from bank to bank, then hurried and tumbled on, in conceited haste, as if the ocean must run dry unless replenished by their wetness ere the sun should set again.
In the waterfalls of the United States alone, he pointed out, there are twenty-five hundred million horsepower of electrical energy.
Indeed, more than four million horsepower of waterfalls are harnessed by Tesla's alternating current system.
The water can be heard trickling and bubbling at the bottom of the crevasses, and the surface brooks often form fine waterfalls which disappear into chasms of ice.
In foaming waterfalls and roaring rapids they rush down from the mountains to meet their lord.
Culloden, while the French named their entrenched camp at Ticonderoga Fort Carillon, or the "Chime of Bells," in allusion to the music of the waterfalls in the outlet stream flowing beside it between the lakes.
The beauty of the original waterfalls is somewhat marred by the mills and their debris.
This plat included the upper waterfalls within the present city limits.
There are several minor waterfalls of great beauty in the vicinity.
The cascade on Osceola creek, a few rods above its mouth, has scarcely a rival amongst the waterfalls of the West.
A valley opened its shadowy depths through the sparkling atmosphere, and in the centre of this veiled chasm the pale threads of two waterfalls seemed to appear and disappear, so exquisitely was the distance imitated.
Valleys lay here and there, running back from the shore with green and inviting vistas; slim waterfalls made one desperate leap from the clouds and buried themselves in the forests hundreds of feet below, where they were lost forever.
All this lay slumbering securely between high walls of verdure; while at the upper end, where the valley was like a niche set in the green and glorious mountains, two waterfallsfloated downward like smoke-columns on a heavy morning.
I seem to breathe the incense of orange-flowers and to hear the whisper of distant waterfallsas I write.
Two waterfalls that fell against the sunset flashed like falling flame, and a soft haze tinged the slumberous solitudes of wood and pasture with the dreamlike loveliness of a picture.
The different waterfalls that we could see at the opposite side of the valley seemed like white, waving wreaths hung upon the mountain-sides.
Directly opposite us, away over the other side of the valley, rose up the sheer, rocky sides of the mountain wall, out of which waterfalls were spurting and cascades dashing in every direction, to feed the stream below.
I counted over twenty waterfalls within one sweep of the eye.
I thought of the cool waterfalls among the rocks far away in Devon.
He is watching the waterfalls that stream from among the vineyards into the sea below, and one long white monastery, perched up among the crags above the highway of the world.
The whole was covered with perpetual ice and snow that reached, in the gullies formed between the mountains, close down to the high-water mark; and many waterfalls of various dimensions were seen to descend in every direction.
Dean and Cascades channels are noted for many waterfalls of wonderful beauty.
There are caves and waterfalls to visit, and unnumbered excursions to make to beautiful places among the hills.
The numerous waterfalls are among the finest of Alaska.
He placed bushes and trees here and there, and narrowed or widened the river, and made cañons and waterfalls and rapids just as he pleased.
There seem to be innumerable waterfallsin North America concerning which there is such a tradition as this one.
They prepared to carry their canoe and baggage overland, so as to avoid a succession of rapids and waterfalls which intercepted their further progress.
And the bales containing these articles are conveyed in boats up the rivers, carried past the waterfalls and rapids overland on the shoulders of stalwart voyageurs, and finally landed at Red River, after a rough trip of many weeks' duration.
The precipices enclosing the Sounds rise in some cases five or six thousand feet from the water's edge, their tops are snow-clad, and great waterfalls thunder into the calm sea-inlets below.
At flower-painting and embroidery, they are pretty fair hands, but they make sad work among waterfalls and ruins.
The pretty waterfalls on the sides of the mountains still continued and the glaciers of the summits became more numerous and strongly marked, and descended nearer to the bed of the stream.
At many places in the inland passage from here on, come down the steep timbered mountains the most beautiful waterfalls fed from the glaciers hidden in the fog.
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