| West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, George Perry Grimsley - Geology - 1916 - 766 pages
...from the edition cf 1801 (p. 27) : "The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Kidge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of a mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| 1916 - 758 pages
...from the edition of 1801 (p. 27) : "The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Kidge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand...up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of a mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Ohio - 1921 - 590 pages
...country where the Shenandoah and the Potomac meet off the peninsula on which Harper's Ferry stands : "You stand on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the root of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest... | |
| Ohio - 1921 - 1314 pages
...country where the Shenandoah and the Potomac meet off the peninsula on which Harper's Ferry stands : "You stand on a very high point of land ; on your...right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the root of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest... | |
| Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - American literature - 1925 - 302 pages
...[FROM THE "NOTES ON VIRGINIA." 1784] . . . 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... | |
| Charles Burleigh Galbreath - Biography - 1925 - 844 pages
...country where the Shenandoah and the Potomac meet off the peninsula on which Harper's Ferry stands : You stand on a very high point of land ; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the root of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest... | |
| Slason Thompson - Railroads - 1925 - 498 pages
...the shadow of the giant rock overlooking the scene depicted in the engraving. "You stand," says he, "on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent ; on your left approaches the Potomac in quest... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
..."one of the most stupendous scenes in nature," the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge : — "You stand on a very high point of land. On your right...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... | |
| Samuel Phillips Day - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 354 pages
...the locality : — " The passage of the Potomac, through the Blue Ridge," he observes, "is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature. You stand...up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of a mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...Ferry: a war between rivers and mountains 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, in quest of a passage... | |
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