 | Robert G. Tanner - 2002 - 640 pages
...splendor. Thomas Jefferson described the scene as a "riot and tumult roaring" and wrote, "You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the [Blue Ridge] mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest... | |
 | Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic - 2003 - 390 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... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 pages
...passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. . . . 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... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 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 an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 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 an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the... | |
 | James A. Beckman - 2006 - 132 pages
...of Thomas leHerton), Harper's Ferry. W. Va. Jefferson stood on the rock and wrote: "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 find a vent; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 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... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - 442 pages
...Blue Ridge — says he — is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land ; — on your right comes...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.... | |
 | J. Cecil Alter - 1928 - 836 pages
...forming a scene of unsurpassed beauty of which Thomas Jefferson wrote as follows : "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 find a vent; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In... | |
 | 1842 - 780 pages
...Blue Ridge, is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand ou a very high |>oint 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 your left approaches the Potomac, i» quest of a passage... | |
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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... 
