 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...thus continuing to 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... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...afterwards ; 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 rife, they have at length broken over at this fpot, and have torn the mountain^ down from its fummit... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...afterwards, 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 rife they have at length broken over at this fpot, and have torn the mountain down from its fummit... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...afterwards, 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...its 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... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...afterWards, 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...its 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... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...afterwards ; 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...its summit to " its base. The piles of rock on each hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the " evident marks of their disrupture and " avulsion... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 564 pages
...afterwards ; 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...to rise, they have at length " broken over at this spat, and 'have torn " the mountain down from its summit t« " its base. The piles of rock on each... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...particularly, they have been dammed up by the Bine ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean tvhioh filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise,...at length broken over at this spot, and have torn thS mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1819 - 592 pages
...Blue ridge of mountains, " and have formed an ocean which filled the " whole valley; that continuining to rise, they " have at length broken over at this...its summit " to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evi" dent marks of their disrupture and avulsion "... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...that in this place, particularly, they havp J>een dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and Lave formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that...continuing to rise they have at length broken over :U this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its £ummit to its base. The piles of rock on each... | |
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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... 
