 The bosom of the river is covered with prodigious boils, or swells, that rise with a whirling motion, and a convex surface, two or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental...  A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer - Page 185by George Newenham Wright - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 602 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...alluvial soil of the bends, with all their trees, and deposites the spoils in another place. At the season of high waters, nothing is more familiar to the... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 828 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, veering a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...alluvial soil of the bends, with all their trees, and depositcs the spoils in another place. At the season of high waters, nothing is more familiar to the... | |
 | Timothy Flint - America - 1832 - 750 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...alluvial soil of the bends, with all their trees, and deposites the spoils in another place. At the season of high waters, nothing is more familiar to the... | |
 | Timothy Flint - America - 1833 - 722 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...bends, with all their trees, and deposits the spoils in another place. At the season of high waters, nothing is more familiar to the ear of the people on... | |
 | Timothy Flint - America - 1833 - 792 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...islands, removes the sand-bars, and sweeps away the ten 13 alluvial soil of the bends, with all their trees, and deposits the spoils in another rlace.... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - North America - 1838 - 534 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the impetus of its current, and propel it ч;юп the point of an island, bend, or sand-bar. In these instances, it tears up the islands, removes... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1842 - 556 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...bend, or sand-bar. In these instances, it tears up the island, removes the sand-bars, and sweeps away the tender alluvial soil of the bends, with all their... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...three rods in diameter, and with no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...and propel it upon the point of an island, bend or sand bar. In these instances it tears up the island, removes the sand bars, and sweeps away the tender... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances ihift the impetus of its current, and propel it upon the...the bends, with all their trees, and deposits the tipoils in another place. At the season of high waters, nothing is more familiar to the ear of tho... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...or three rods in diameter, and no inconsiderable noise, whirling a boat perceptibly from its track. In its course, accidental circumstances shift the...impetus of its current, and propel it upon the point of the island, bend, or sand-bar. In these instances, it tears up the islands, removes the sand-bars,... | |
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