 | Priscilla Wakefield - History - 1806 - 444 pages
...which is endeavouring, from the left, to force a passage also. The moment they unite, their waters rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The piles of rock above, and the steep precipice beneath, with the roaring of the torrent, form a sublime... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...mountain 100 miles to seek an outlet. On the left approaches the Potowmac in search of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. " The broken and rugged faces of the mountain on each side of the river — the tremendous rocks which are... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...foot of the mountain an hundred units to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in tjuest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, r-.-nd it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into... | |
 | Geography - 1820 - 352 pages
...rock, yet few persons have the courage to approach it, and to look down into the profound abyss below. against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. A road on one side of the river leads through the beach ; also locks and canals have been constructed,... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 440 pages
...along the foot of the mountain 100 " miles to seek a vent : on your left approaches " the Potowmac, in quest of a passage also. In " the moment of their junction, they rush toge" ther against the mountain, rend it asunder, " and pass off to the sea. The first glance of "... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...an hundred miles to seek 11 vent. On the left approaches the Potowmac in quest of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, Had pass oil1 to i.!i,- sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles, to seek a vent. Oh your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they...asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time ; that... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they...asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time; that the... | |
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... THE passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles... 
