 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, and corroborate the impression which such monuments of war between the rivers and mountains (that must... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...the moft , powerful . powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion. But the dißant Imifhing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...beds by the moft powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion : but the cliftant finiftiing which) nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...the moil powerful powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreflron. But the diítant finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from...which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 564 pages
...summit t« " its base. The piles of rock on each hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the " evident marks of their disrupture and " avulsion from...is as placid " and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents to your eye, through " the cleft,... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...particularly on the Sheoandoah, the evideut marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds- by fhe most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....true contrast to the foreground-. It is as placid and delighfful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1819 - 592 pages
..." to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evi" dent marks of their disrupture and avulsion " from their...It " is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as <c placid and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mentions. For the mountain being cloven " asunder,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from...by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, and corroborate the impression which such monuments of war between the rivers and mountains (that must... | |
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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 from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly... 
