 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 σελίδες
...junction, they rufli together againft the mountain, rend it afunder, and pafs off to the fea. The firft glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, tfyat the mountains were formed firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1802 - 452 σελίδες
...junetion they lufh together againft the mountain, rend it aftir.der, and país off to the fsa. The fiift glance of this fcene hurries our fenfes into the opinion,...were formed firft, that the rivers began to -flow ?.fterwardf, that in this- place particularly they have been dammed up by the blue ridge of mountains,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 σελίδες
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 σελίδες
...mountain, r-.-nd it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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, that in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 σελίδες
...mountain, rend " it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The " first glance of this scene 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 ; that in this place particularly, " they have been... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 σελίδες
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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, that in this place, particularly, they havp J>een... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 σελίδες
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 σελίδες
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 σελίδες
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene 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 ; that, in this place particularly, they have been... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1830 - 306 σελίδες
...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 in time ; that the monn •tains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; ihat, in this place particularly,... | |
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... 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... 
