 | 1815 - 558 pages
...weve saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced, a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the...became too tremendous to be mistaken for any thing bui the great falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after first hearing the sound, he... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - Columbia River - 1814 - 518 pages
...ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the...Towards this point he directed his steps, and the noise1 increasing as he approached soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for any thing but the... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 422 pages
...were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced, a spray which seemed driven by the high south-west wind arose above the...approached, soon .became too tremendous to be mistaken for aay thing but the great Falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after first hearing the... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced, a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke, and vanished in an ingtaut. Towards this point he directed his steps, and the noise increasing as he approached, soon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...sound of falling waters was heard, and a spray. •which seemed driven by the high south-west wind rose above the plain like a column of smoke, and vanished in an instant. The sound soon became too tremendous to be mistaken for any thing but the great falls of the Missouri,... | |
 | William Bingley - Canada - 1821 - 374 pages
...saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water; and, as he advanced, a spray, which seemed to be driven by the high south-west wind, arose above the...to be mistaken for any thing but the Great Falls of Ike Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after he first heard the sound, he at length reached the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...a fall cf water ; and as he advanced, a spray, which seemed driven by the high southwest wind, rose above the plain like a column of smoke, and vanished...the great falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after hearing the sound, he reached the falls about 12 o'clock. The hills, as he approached,... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 910 pages
...saluted with the sound of a fall of water. As he advanced, a spray which seemed driven by the high SW wind, arose above the plain, like a column of smoke,...instant . Towards this point he directed his steps ; and having travelled 7 miles after first hearing the sound, he reach1?:! the falls about Three remarkable... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...plain. of water ; and as he advanced, a spray, which seemed driven by the high southwest wind, rose above the plain like a column of smoke, and vanished in an instant. Toward this point he directed his steps ; and the noise, increasing as he approached, soon became too... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...a fall of water ; and as he advanced, a spray, which seemed driven by the high southwest wind, rose above the plain like a column of smoke, and vanished...the great falls of the Missouri. Having travelled seven miles after hearing the sound, he reached the falls about 12 o'clock. The hills, as he apS cached,... | |
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In this direction captain Lewis had gone about two miles when his ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke and... 
