 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...is, perhaps, (says the ex-president Jefferson,) " one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. — You stand on a very high point of land ; on your right...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of • the mountains a hundred miles to seek a vent. On the left the Potowmac approaches in quest of a passage... | |
 | English poetry - 1788 - 708 pages
...Patoivm«: through the Blue ridge U perhaps one of the moft liupendous fcenes in nature. You ftand on ж very high point of land. On your right comes up the...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hun.lrcd mihs to feelc a vent. On your left approaches the Pa'owmac, in queft of ap:\ffage alio. In... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...Blue ridge is perhaps one of the moft ftupendous fcenes in nature. You ftand on a very high point o£ land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having...along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to leek a vent ; on your kft approaches the Potomac!:, in queft of a paiihge alfo : in the rnor meat pent... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of • the moil ftupendous fcenes in nature. You iland on a very high point of land. On your right comes...along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to feek a vent. On your ieft approaches the Patowmac, in queil of a paflage alfo. In the moment of their... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...of the Potowmac through the Blue Mountains is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land : on your right...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain 100 miles to seek an outlet. On the left approaches the Potowmac in search of a passage also. At the... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...POTOMAC THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA. This is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes hi nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right...having ranged along the 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... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...passage of the Patowmac 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 Shenandoab, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...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...Shenandoah, having ranged 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... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...Potowmac," says he, " through the Blue Mountains, 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 ShenanJoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountains an hundred miles, to seek a vent. On the... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand VOL. I.. 24 on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shcnandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left... | |
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Po'tomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 
