 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...junction they rum together againft the mountain, rend it afundef, and pafs off to the fea. The rirtt glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion,...mountains were formed firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains,... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...junction, they rufli together againft the mountain, rend it afunder, and pafs off to the fea. The firft glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, tfyat the mountains were formed firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...junction they rufh together againfl the mountain, rend it afunder, and pafs off to the fea. The firil glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion,...mountains were formed firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, , that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...mountain, r-.-nd it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterWards, that in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...mountain, rend " it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The " first glance of this scene hurries our senses " into the opinion, that this earth has been " created in time, that the mountains were " formed first, that the rivers began to flow " afterwards ; that in this place particularly, " they have been... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they havp J>een... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterwards; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been... | |
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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... 
