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  • CASCADES FARMERS MARKET, sponsored by the Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets Association. 9 a. m.-1 p.m. Sundays, Loudoun County Senior Center at Cascades, 21060 Whitfield Pl.,

    Loudoun County community calendar, Sept. 16-23, 2010 2010

  • CASCADES FARMERS MARKET, sponsored by the Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets Association. 9 a. m.-1 p.m. Sundays, Loudoun County Senior Center at Cascades, 21060 Whitfield Pl.,

    Loudoun County community calendar, July 22-29, 2010 2010

  • Treffle said these waves were due to the rushing water striking big rocks in the bed of the river, over which they kept pouring, and gave the name Cascades to the rapid.

    The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

  • But in high elevations, at the Cascades, that is where you're going to see the snow, about anywhere from five to 10 inches of snowfall expected in that area.

    CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2008 2008

  • The Cascades are a kind of fall, or rapid descent, in the river, over a rocky channel below: going down is called, by the French, "Sauter," to leap or shove the cascades.

    The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

  • As the canoes floated down through the magnificent cañon by which the Columbia passes the Cascade Range, they encountered another rapid, now known as the Cascades of the Columbia.

    The Western United States A Geographical Reader

  • Beyond the Cascades is the dry belt, where irrigation becomes a necessity, while north of the 52d parallel the winters become more and more severe in proportion to the latitude and the altitude.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • He stared across the water with gloomy eyes and added -- it seemed quite inconsequently -- "The Cascades is a bad fall, but I think it will be the Roches Fendues that gets me in the end."

    Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Governor Haldimand had, from 1779-1782, constructed a very simple temporary system of canals to overcome the rapids called the Cascades,

    Lord Elgin Bourinot, John G 1903

  • Governor Haldimand had, from 1779-1782, constructed a very simple temporary system of canals to overcome the rapids called the Cascades,

    Lord Elgin John George Bourinot 1869

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