 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...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 against...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,... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - History - 1806 - 444 pages
...which is endeavouring, from the left, to force a passage also. The moment they unite, their waters rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The piles of rock above, and the steep precipice beneath, with the roaring of the torrent, form a sublime... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...the foot of the mountain 100 miles to seek an outlet. On the left approaches the Potowmac in search of a passage also. At the moment of their junction,...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. " The broken and rugged faces of the mountain on each side of the river — the tremendous rocks which are... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, r-.-nd it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance...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,... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...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...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 "... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 564 pages
...left approaches " the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. " In the moment of their junction, they w rush together against the mountain, rend " it asunder,...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... | |
 | Geography - 1820 - 352 pages
...rock, yet few persons have the courage to approach it, and to look down into the profound abyss below. against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. A road on one side of the river leads through the beach ; also locks and canals have been constructed,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the momen I of their junction they rush together against the mountain,...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,... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 440 pages
..." the Potowmac, in quest of a passage also. In " the moment of their junction, they rush toge" ther against the mountain, rend it asunder, " and pass...scene hurries our senses into the opinion, " that the earth has been created in time ; that " the mountains were formed first ; that the " rivers begun... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...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 against...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;... | |
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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. 
