 Kentucke with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a few...  The Scots Magazine - Page 81791Full view - About this book
 | James D. McCabe - United States - 1871 - 1172 pages
...dignity, and marking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance, I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows and penetrate the clouds. All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck which I had... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1886 - 890 pages
...silent dignity, marking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds." On the 27th of July he was glad to welcome back to his vast solitudes the companionship of Squire Boone... | |
 | Ohio - 1904 - 630 pages
...dignity, and marking the western boundary of Kentucke with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance, I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. All things were' still. I kindled a fire, near a fountain of sweet water, and seated on the loin of a buck, which a... | |
 | Ohio - 1904 - 612 pages
...dignity, and marking the western boundary of Kentucke with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance, I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. All things were still. I kindled a fire, near a fountain of sweet water, and seatedon the loin of a buck, which a few... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - Columbus (Ohio) - 1892 - 1202 pages
...silent dignity marking (he western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. I kindled a lire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck which a few hours... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1895 - 900 pages
...silent dignity, marking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds." On the zyth of July he was glad to welcome back to his vast solitudes the companionship of Squire Boone... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - History - 1903 - 214 pages
...silent dignity, marking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. ' ' Inspired by such descriptions as these, there came in the wake of the hunterexplorers crowds of... | |
 | Herbert G. Smith - Adventure and adventurers - 1906 - 334 pages
...river Ohio, that rolled in silent dignity, marking the western boundary of Kentucky. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows and penetrate the clouds. All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a... | |
 | Henry Addington Bruce - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 410 pages
...silent dignity, marking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds." These, it is as well to point out, are Boone's words only as they have come down to us in the peculiar... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1820 - 494 pages
...the famous river Ohio, that rolled in silent dignity, with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows, and penetrate the clouds. All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a... | |
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