 | Eli Bowen - History - 1855 - 444 pages
...began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Hidge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah ; the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place, particularly, they have been dammed np by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupturc and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards: that, in this place particularly, they have been obstructed by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base." "The piles of rock on each hand, particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...the rivers began to fiow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...to flow afterward ; that, in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue .Kidge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture1 and avulsion 3 from their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 450 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterward ; that, in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture1 and avulsion8 from their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards; thnt, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...they have been dammed up by the Mue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled thft whole valley; that, continuing to rise, they have...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled up the whole valley ; that, continuing to rise, they have at length broken over at this spot, and have... | |
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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 up by... 
