 | 1833 - 224 pagina’s
...a hundred miles to seek a vent. 3. On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 4. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pagina’s
...their j;iiu -lion they rush together against the mountain, rend it asantor, a'ld piss of to the sea. 2. The 'first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, ihst this earth has b?on created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that ths rivers bogifn... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 292 pagina’s
...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...to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries eur senses into the opinion, that this*earth has heen created in time ; that the mountains were formed... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pagina’s
...a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your leftapproaches 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. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pagina’s
...an 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. * * * But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character.... | |
 | Philip Houlbrooke Nicklin - 1837 - 264 pagina’s
...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...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea." Notes on Virginia, NY 1801, p. 27. What will the neoterick geologists say to the notion of two quiet... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 644 pagina’s
...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, and pass on to the sea. The distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is as placid and delightful,... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1838 - 534 pagina’s
...miles to seek a vent. On your approaches the Potomac in quest of a passage also. In the moment of tl junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that mountains were... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 pagina’s
...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, and pass on to the sea. The distant finishing which nature baa given to the picture is as placid and delightful,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1840 - 246 pagina’s
...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. 
