 | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - Liczba stron: 460
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together...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 from... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - Liczba stron: 562
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together...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 from... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - Liczba stron: 376
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together...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 form... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - 2002 - Liczba stron: 290
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together...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 from... | |
 | Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic - 2003 - Liczba stron: 390
...passage, sandwiched between the violent rending and the pastoral scene "through the cleft", reads: The first glance of this scene hurries our senses...ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filed the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - Liczba stron: 444
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together...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 from... | |
 | Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - 2004 - Liczba stron: 593
...cteared m time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afrerwards, that m this place, particularly, they have been dammed up...formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that contmumg to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountam down from... | |
 | Adam Rothman - 2005 - Liczba stron: 324
...majestic confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers in western Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains: "The first glance of this scene hurries our senses...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 from... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - Liczba stron: 653
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together...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 from... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - Liczba stron: 442
...mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent ; — on your left approaches the Potomac in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together...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 from... | |
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In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the 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... 
