Sir Newton

half-sheets, folio, papers, relating, loose, 4to, church, account and quarter-sheets

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27. 37 half-sheets in folio, upon the Host of Heaven, the Sanctuary, and other Church Matters.

28. 44 half-sheets in folio, upon Ditto.

29. 25 half-sheets in folio ; being a farther account of the Host of Heaven.

30. 51 half-sheets in folio ; being an Historical Account of two notable Corruptions of Scripture.

11. 88 half-shetts in small 4to ; being Extracts of Church History.

32. 116 half-sheets in folio ; being Paradoxical Ques tions concerning Athanasius, of which several leaves in the beginning are very much damaged.

33. 56 half-sheets in folio, De Alotu Corporum ; the greatest part not in Sir Isaac's hand.

34. 61 half-shects in small 4to ; being various sections on the Apocalypse.

35. 25 half-sheets in folio, of the Working of the Mys tery of Iniquity 36. 20 half-sheets in folio, of the Theology of the Hea thens.

37. 24 half-sheets in folio; being an Account of the Contest between the Host of Heaven and the Transgressors of the Covenant.

38. 31 half.sheets in folio ; being Paradoxical Ques tions concerning Athanasius.

39. 107 quarter-sheets in small 4to, upon the Revela tions.

40. 174 half-sheets in folio; being loose papers relating to Church History.

May 22, 1727, examined from No. 21. to No. 40, in clusive, and judged them not tit to be printed : only No. 33. and 38. should be reconsidered.

41. 167 half-sheets in folio ; being loose and foul pa pers relating to the Commercium Epistolicum.

42. 21 half-sheets in folio ; being the 3d letter upon Texts of Scripture, very much damaged 43. 31 half-sheets in folio ; being foul papers relating to Church Matters.

44. 495 half-sheets in folio ; being loose and foul papers relating to Calculations and Mathematics.

45. 335 half-sheets in folio ; being loose and foul papers relating to the Chronology.

46. 112 sheets in small 4to, relating. to the Revelations and other Church Alatters.

47. 126 half-sheets in folio ; being loose papers relating to the Chronology, part in English and part in Latin.

48. 400 half-sheets in folio ; being loose 'Mathematical papers.

49. 109 sheets in 4to, relating to the Prophecies and Church Matters.

50..127 half-sheets in folio, relating to the University ; great part not in Sir Isaac's hand.

51. 18 sheets in 4to ; being Chemical papers.

52 255 quarter-sheets; being Chemical papers.

53. An Account of Corruptions of Scripture ; not in Sir Isaac's hand.

54. 31 quarter-sheets ; being Flammel's Explication of Hieroglyphical Figures.

55. About 35(..) half-sheets ; being Miscellaneous papers.

56. 6 half-sheets ; being An Account of the Empires, Sze. represented by St. John.

57. 9 half-sheets folio, and 71 quarter-sheets 4to ; being Mathematical papers.

58. 140 half-sheets, in 9 chapters, and 2 pieces in folio, titled, Concerning the Language of the Pro phets.

59. 6G6 half-sheets folio, relating to the Chronology ; 9 more in Latin.

60. 182 half-sheets folio. being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies.

61. 144 quarter-sheets, and 95 half. sheets roll° ; being loose ;Mathematical papers.

62. 137 half-sheets folio ; being. loose papet s relating to the dispute with Leibnitz.

63. A folio Common-place book ; part in Sir Isaac's hand.

64. A bundle of English letters to Sir Isaac, relating to 'Mathematics.

65. 54 half-sheets ; being loose papers found in the Principia 66. A bundle of loose Mathematical Papers ; not Sir Isaac's.

of bare solid rock, the whole height of the cataract. The width of the fall between Goat Island and the American side is about one•fifth of the whole, and that of the island itself another firth ; although the quantity of water on the British side is probably ten times as great as on the other. A bridge now connects the New York shore to Goat Island.

'Ehe Table Rock is a part of the Canada bank, which is on the margin of the great sheet of falling water. It furnishes altogether the most interesting view of the falls. The cyc, looking up the river, beholds it tumbling. with wi:d magnificence over the ledges of rocks, which, seen from this place, seem close together, and appear tn constitute a single broken cataract. The immense mass of waters, greatly increased in its rapidity by this de scent, and perhaps still more by the co: traction of the river, rolls with an apparently instantaneous motion to to the brow of the precipice, and shoots over it into the abyss below. The depth of the precipice, the roar of the cataract, the mass or the waters, and, above all, the inconceivable exertion of powcr, overwhelm the mind with emotions of sublimity and grandeur; and fill it with new anti clearer views of the weakness and little ness of man.

From the surface of the stream beneath, on the Canada side, there arises a thick and constant cloud of vapour, which mounts above the precipice to the height of more than 100 feet. In clear weather, three primary rain bows are frequently visible at once in various patts of this cloud. These, when the sun is near the horizon, appear complete semicircles, and are often of singular lustre and beauty. Beneath the fall lies a thick mass of foam, which, for a great extent, covers the surface of the water. The banks of the river below are on both sides perpendicular, of solid rock, and of the same height with those above the fall. They continue of this height seven miles to Queenstown. Here the cataract is supposed to have conunenced after the deluge, and from this place to have worn its way backward to its present spot. No one who examines the ground will doubt for a moment that this has been the case ; and those who have lived for 20 years on the bank all attest this retrograde mo tion. These falls are in Lat. 43° 05' N.

A more minute account of these falls will he found in the Phil. Trans. 1722, vol. xxxii. p. 69 ; and in Volney's 7'ravels.

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