 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 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, particularly on the Shenandoah—tne evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...afterward ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountain, 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 Shcnandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 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;...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1876 - 664 pages
...afterward ; 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 evulsion from their... | |
 | Richard Plummer Jackson - Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) - 1878 - 370 pages
...fkwafterwards ; that in this place, particularly, they have been darned up by the Blue liidge Mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley...mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rocks on each hand, but, particularly on the Shenandoah — the evident marks of their disrupture and... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...afterward, 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 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... | |
 | Harvey W. Crew - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 884 pages
...and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise, they at length broke over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down...its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident murks of their disrupture and avulsion from their... | |
 | Harvey W. Crew - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 886 pages
...afterward, that in this place particularly they have been damned up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise, they at length broke over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The... | |
 | Louise Manly - American liteature - 1895 - 538 pages
...afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been damned 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... | |
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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... 
