 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The -first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that...afterwards ; 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...hundred miles to seek a vent. On your leftapproaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...hundred miles to seek a vent. On your- left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the...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... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 pages
...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 against the...afterwards; 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the...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... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 558 pages
...they rush together ngainst the mountain, rend it nsunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that...afterwards ; 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... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1876 - 664 pages
...miles to seek a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also j in the moment of their junction, they rush together against the...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... | |
 | Richard Plummer Jackson - Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) - 1878 - 370 pages
...to seek a vent. On your left, approaches, the Potomac in inquest of a passage, also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the...;' that the mountains were formed first; that the river began to fkwafterwards ; that in this place, particularly, they have been darned up by the Blue... | |
 | Samuel Orcutt - Connecticut - 1878 - 950 pages
...miles to find a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passagt also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here are people who have passed their lives within... | |
 | Joseph Gladding Pangborn - Middle Atlantic States - 1883 - 302 pages
...miles to seek a vent ; pn the left 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 to the sea." During all the years which have passed since, the rock has been preserved as carefully as though its... | |
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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. 
