| Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 508 pages
...descriptions, as in the following : " The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...descriptions, as in the following : "The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 552 pages
...OF THE POTOMAC THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE. The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also.... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 546 pages
...OF THE POTOMAC THROUGH THE BLUE RIDGE. The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 574 pages
...Missisipi and St. Laurence on the other. The passage of [30] the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Thomas M. Aldrich - History - 1904 - 514 pages
...of Robert Harper in 1782, presenting the view from Jefferson's rock, above the village. He said: " 'You stand on a very high point of land; on your right...the Shenandoah. having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pages
...the same directors bought in again. THE passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in 2. 24. quest of a... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1909 - 520 pages
...UNION OF THE SHENANDOAH AND THE POTOMAC THE passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Thomas Kemp Cartmell - Reference - 1909 - 648 pages
...such creations. Here is what he said : "The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, is perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...on a very high point of land. On your right comes the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of a mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your... | |
| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 428 pages
...and a quarter ago, Thomas Jefferson said was " worth a voyage across the Atlantic." He continues : " You stand on a very high point of land ; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged aloug the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac,... | |
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