 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time; that the mountains were first formed, that the rivers began to flow afterward ; that, in this place particularly, they have... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were first formed, that the rivers began to flow afterward ; that, in this place particularly, they have... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 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... | |
 | 1875 - 558 sider
...mountain, rend it nsunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at 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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 sider
...to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterward ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | Richard Plummer Jackson - 1878 - 370 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off' to the sea. 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 river began to fkwafterwards ; that in this place, particularly, they have been darned... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 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 afterward, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 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... | |
 | Harvey W. Crew - 1892 - 884 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder and pass off to the east. 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 afterward, that in this place particularly they have been damned... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 sider
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 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 damned... | |
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... 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 rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down... 
