 | 428 pages
...thunders, and the irrefiftible power and ftrength of waters. No living creature was ever known to pafi through this narrow, except an Indian woman, who was,...current. Perceiving her danger, fhe took a bottle of rum fhe had with her, and drank the whole of it ; then lay down in her canoe, to meet her deftiny. She... | |
 | Samuel Peters - Connecticut - 1877 - 298 pages
...thunders, and the irresistible power and strength of waters ! No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow, except an Indian woman, who was, in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | Samuel Peters - Connecticut - 1877 - 296 pages
...thunders, and the irresistible power and strength of waters! No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow, except an Indian woman, who was, in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1906 - 646 pages
...from a description of the, narrows of the Connecticut River. Xo living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 940 pages
...from a description of the narrows of the Connecticut River. No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 944 pages
...from a description of the narrows of the Connecticut River. No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the riverabove it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current. Perceiving... | |
 | Lyman Simpson Hayes - Bellows Falls (Vt.) - 1907 - 1034 pages
...splintered like a broom, to the amazement of the spectator. No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow, except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly let herself fall within the power of the current. Perceiving... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1922 - 1162 pages
...pieces with no greater ease than dooa this mighty water.*" No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow, except an Indian woman, who was In a canoe attempting to cross the river above It, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1924 - 878 pages
...from a description of the narrows of the Connecticut River. No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1924 - 886 pages
...from a description of the narrows of the Connecticut River. No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current.... | |
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No living creature was ever known to pass through this narrow except an Indian woman, who was in a canoe, attempting to cross the river above it, but carelessly suffered herself to fall within the power of the current. Perceiving her danger she took a... 