 | Eli Bowen - History - 1855 - 444 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... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...mountain a 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 ofl* to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth... | |
 | John Disturnell - Canada - 1855 - 272 pages
...a 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 the mountain, rend it asunder, (referring to a possible event of former times), and pass off to the sea." JAMES RIVER AND OLD POINT... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your Ielt approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass offto the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...hundred miles, to seek an outlet. 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:... | |
 | William Prescott Smith - Railroads - 1858 - 566 pages
...a 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...mountain, rend it asunder and pass off to the sea." •which we overtook them. Among the number were: Hon. James Brooks, (Ed. NY Express,} Messrs. JS Atwood,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...mountain a 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 tho sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, 4 they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses mto the opinion that this earth has been created... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...mountain a 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 6S to the sea. 2. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses mto the opinion that this earth... | |
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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. 
