 | 1829 - 696 pages
...(says the ex-president Jefferson,) " one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. — You stand on a very high point of land ; on your right comes up the...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of • the mountains a hundred miles to seek a vent. On the left the Potowmac approaches in quest of a passage... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...the moft ftupertdous fcenes in nature. You ftand on a very high point of land. On your right conies up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to feek a »ent. On your left approaches the Patomak, in quell of a paflage alfo. In... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...Blue ridge is perhaps one of the moft ftupendous fcenes in nature. You ftand on a very high point oŁ land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to leek a vent ; on your kft approaches the Potomac!:, in queft of a paiihge alfo : in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of • the moil ftupendous fcenes in nature. You iland on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to feek a vent. On your ieft approaches the Patowmac, in queil of a paflage alfo. In... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...Patowmac 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 up 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 also. In... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...Potowmac through the Blue Mountains is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land : on your right comes up the...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain 100 miles to seek an outlet. On the left approaches the Potowmac in search of a passage also. At the... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA. This is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes hi nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred units to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in tjuest of a passage also. In... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 938 pages
...magnificent prospect which Mr. Jefferson has so eloquently, yet correctly described. " You stand on a very high " point of land. On your right comes up...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 also.... | |
 | Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 pages
...through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand VOL. I. 24 on a very high point of land. On your right comes up 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 also. In the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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 up 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 also. In... | |
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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 up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to... 
