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" This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains,... "
THE GREAT REPUBLIC: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN UNION - Page 759
by JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Fredericktown, and the fine country round that. This scene is worth...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. (B.) The height of our mountains has not yet been esimated with any degree of exactness. The Alleghaney...
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Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1814 - 378 pages
...have passed their lives within half a dozen milesj and have never been to survey these monuments of war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. KENTUCKY. Boundaries. KENTUCKY is an interior state, lying west of Virginia, which forms its eastern...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed iheir lives withjn half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. FALLS OF NIAGARA. * These falls have long been celebrated, as sustaining the first rank among natural...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...Natural Bridge, " are people who have passed their lives " within half a dozen miles, and have ne" ver been to survey these monuments of " a war between...must have shaken the earth itself, " to its centre." — Notes, p. 27. Crossing Harper's Ferry, I ascended with some toil the mountain precipice, C, on...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 564 pages
...passed their lives " within half a dozen miles, and have ne" ver been to survey these monuments of M a war between rivers and mountains " which must have shaken the earth itself, " to its centre." — Notes, p. 27. Crossing Harper's Ferry, I ascended with some toil the mountain precipice, C, on...
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Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1818 - 384 pages
...have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to itr centre. KENTUCKY. 193 V 3,008 3,706 3 ,430 18,000 2,181 <,3H J1.5(9 3,285 3,473 11,020 6,191 2.398...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 pages
...lives within half a dozen miles, and have never " been to survey these monuments of a war be" tween rivers and mountains which must have *' shaken the earth itself, to its centre."— Notes, p. 27. Crossing Harper's Ferry, I ascended with some toil the mountain precipice, C, on the...
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ...

Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...worth a voyagp across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighbouihood 104 AMERICAN CURIOSITIES, &C. of the natural bridge, are people who have passed...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. — The height of our mountains has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness. The Alleghaney...
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Letters

Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 438 pages
...have " passed their lives within half a dozen miles, " and have never been to survey these move" ments of a war between rivers and mountains, " which must have shaken the earth itself to its " centre." — While on the subject of scenery, I will also copy for you Darby's description of a most singular...
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Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and ...

Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 442 pages
...have " passed their lives within half a dozen miles, " and have never been to survey these move" ments of a war between rivers and mountains, " which must have shaken the earth itself to its " centre."—While on the subject of scenery, I will also copy for you Darby's description of a most...
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