 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...rise, they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn down this mountain from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...have at length broken over a( this fpot, and have torn the mountain down from its fummit to its bafe. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident mark» of their difruption and arullion from their beds by the moft , powerful . powerful agents of... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...have at length broken over at this fpot, and have torn the mountain^ down from its fummit to its bafe. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their difruption and avulfion from their beds by the moft powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...have at length broken over at this fpot, and have torn the mountain down from its fummit to its bafe. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their difrupture and avulfion form their beds by the moil powerful powerful agents of nature, corroborate... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...rise, they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly...which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...they have, at length, broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down, from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly...by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...rise, they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn down the mountain from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...they have, at length, broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down, from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly...by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...The piles of ruck on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, and corroborate the impression which such monuments of war between the rivers and mountains (that must... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...they have, at length, broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly...their disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by flie most powerful agents of Nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing which Nature... | |
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... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down... 
