A View Of The Great Cohoes Falls On The Mohawk River The Fall About Seventy Feet The River Near A

by After Thomas Pownall

$3,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

'Through this land runs an excellent river...When we saw not only the river falling with such a noise that we could hardly hear one another, but the water boiling and dashing with such force in still weather, that it was all the time as it were raining...I saw there in clear sunshine when there was not a cloud in the sky.. in a great abyss the half of a rainbow...of the same color with rainbow in the sky. ' Reverend Johannes Megapolensis, 1642 The falls mark the place where

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