 | 1829 - 696 sider
...Potowmac approaches in quest of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off...this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth had been erected in process of time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 sider
...approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off...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... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1806 - 444 sider
...endeavouring, from the left, to force a passage also. The moment they unite, their waters rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The piles of rock above, and the steep precipice beneath, with the roaring of the torrent, form a sublime... | |
 | 1828 - 498 sider
...approaches the Potowmac in search of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. " The broken and rugged faces of the mountain on each side of the river — the tremendous rocks which are... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 sider
...of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, r-.-nd it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance...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... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 564 sider
..." the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. " In the moment of their junction, they w rush together against the mountain, rend " it asunder, and pass...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... | |
 | 1820 - 352 sider
...rock, yet few persons have the courage to approach it, and to look down into the profound abyss below. against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. A road on one side of the river leads through the beach ; also locks and canals have been constructed,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 sider
...approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the momen I of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off...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... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 sider
...approaches the Potowmac, in quest of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off...this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth had been erected in process of time : that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sider
...approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off...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... | |
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Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 
