... 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 valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down... County Reports - Side 251916Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1829 - 696 sider
...thus continuing to rise, they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn down this mountain from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 sider
...mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 sider
...mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
| Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 sider
...mountains, and have formed an " ocean which filled the whole valley ; that " continuing to rise, they have at length " broken over at this spot, and have torn...summit to " its base. The piles of rock on each hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the " evident marks of their disrupture and " avulsion from their... | |
| Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 sider
...whole valley ; that continuing to rise, They have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn thS mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Sheoandoah, the evideut marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds-... | |
| Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 440 sider
...mountains, and have " formed an ocean, which filled the whole " valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at " length broken over at this spot, and have torn..." the mountain down from its summit to its " base. — This scene is worth a voyage across the " Atlantic; yet here, as in the neighbourhood " of the... | |
| Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 442 sider
...mountains, and have " formed an ocean, which filled the whole " valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at " length broken over at this spot, and have torn " the mountain down from its summit to its " base.—This scene is worth a voyage across the " Atlantic; yet here, as in the neighbourhood " of... | |
| Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 sider
...mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sider
...mountains, and have formed an ocean, which filled the whole valley; that, continuing to rise, they have, at length, broken over at this spot, and have torn...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds,... | |
| Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 sider
...thus, continuing to rise, they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn down the mountain from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from... | |
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