 ... 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...  Notes on the State of Virginia - Strona 27autor: Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 495Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - Liczba stron: 558
...junction, they rufli together againft the mountain, rend it afunder, and pafs off to the fea. The firft glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, tfyat the mountains were formed firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1802 - Liczba stron: 452
...junetion they lufh together againft the mountain, rend it aftir.der, and país off to the fsa. The fiift glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion,...were formed firft, that the rivers began to -flow ?.fterwardf, that in this- place particularly they have been dammed up by the blue ridge of mountains,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - Liczba stron: 388
...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... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - Liczba stron: 214
...mountain, r-.-nd 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... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - Liczba stron: 944
...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... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - Liczba stron: 374
...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 havp J>een... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - Liczba stron: 320
...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... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - Liczba stron: 478
...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - Liczba stron: 290
...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... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1830 - Liczba stron: 306
...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 monn •tains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; ihat, in this place particularly,... | |
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