Significados de great cataracts em inglês

All the great cataracts, as we shall soon see, are within the latitudes just named.

I call this chain the Cordillera of Parime, or of the great cataracts of the Orinoco.

We believed that the great cataracts of the Yellowstone were within two days', or at most three days', travel.

Above, the river ripples in a broad sheet of mud; below, it plunges with violence over great cataracts and rapids.

The most northern of the great cataracts of the Orinoco is the only one bounded on each side by lofty mountains.

We have just seen that, in the Orinoco, as in the Amazon, the great cataracts are not found near the sources of the rivers.

Sometimes, in fact, these streams and rivers, after they leave the lakes, form great cataracts and cascades in getting down to the level country below.

What would lead me to doubt this last supposition is, that we saw toninas above the great cataracts of the Orinoco, in the Rio Atabapo.

The mountains of the Great Cataracts bounded the horizon towards the south-east.

Great cataracts and artificial cascades often form the background to a great building or colossal statue.

Beyond the Great Cataracts an unknown land begins.

Great cataracts of gravel shot out, avalanches of clay toppled over; vast boulders were hurled into the air like heaps of fleecy wool.

This valuable production is found also in the valley of the Rio Caura, as well as near Esmeralda, and eastward of the Great Cataracts.