 | 1916 - 758 pages
...a 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;... | |
 | 1921 - 1314 pages
...hundred miles to find 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. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic; . ... these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains... | |
 | 1921 - 590 pages
...a hundred miles to find 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. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic ; . . . these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - 1925 - 302 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925 - 844 pages
...hundred miles to find 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. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic ; * * * these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1925 - 498 pages
...left approaches the Potomac in quest of a portage also. In POINT OF ROCKS the THIRD DECADE, 1850-1860 the moment of their junction they rush together against...mountain, rend it asunder and pass off to the sea." As the captain's companions wandered through the Nar.ARLY IRON BRIDGE ON THE B. & O.. NEAR ELYSVILLE,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1862 - 354 pages
...a 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 pages
...a 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,... | |
 | Merritt Roe Smith - 1980 - 372 pages
...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." Harpers Ferry typified Jefferson's "middle landscape." At once the scenery was as "placid and delightful"... | |
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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. 
