20 Whirlpool Rapids
Whirlpool Rapids
Two miles below the Falls are the Whirlpool Rapids. At this point the river is not more than one hundred yards wide, and through this narrow defile the united waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, St. Clair, Huron and Erie go thundering by at an estimated speed of twenty-seven miles an hour. The roar is deatening. The force of the water is like the rage of some imprisoned Titan, who, struggling beneath the flood, tosses the water In snowy spray and angry billows from twenty to thirty feet above tiie head of the spectator standing securely upon the shore. Sir Charles Lyell estimated that fifteen hundred million cubic feet of water rushed through the Whirlpool Rapids every minute. The depth of the water here is problematic. It is supposed to be about three hundred feet.
Two miles below the Falls are the Whirlpool Rapids. At this point the river is not more than one hundred yards wide, and through this narrow defile the united waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, St. Clair, Huron and Erie go thundering by at an estimated speed of twenty-seven miles an hour. The roar is deatening. The force of the water is like the rage of some imprisoned Titan, who, struggling beneath the flood, tosses the water In snowy spray and angry billows from twenty to thirty feet above tiie head of the spectator standing securely upon the shore. Sir Charles Lyell estimated that fifteen hundred million cubic feet of water rushed through the Whirlpool Rapids every minute. The depth of the water here is problematic. It is supposed to be about three hundred feet.
Dieses Kapitel ist Teil des Buches Niagara - in Summer and Winter
