 | 1840 - 342 pages
...the rivers hegan to flow afterwards — that in this plnce, particularly, thev have heen dammed up hy the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that, contiauing to rise, they have at length hroken over at this spot, end have torn the mountain down from... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers (Elementary) - 1841 - 286 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley...its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each side, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...that the rivers began to Sow afterwards ; that in this place particularly, they have been dammed np by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, particularly on the Shenandoah — the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley...continuing to rise, they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each side,... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...that the riven began to flow afterwards, that in thil place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly, they have been damnied up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...have torn the mountain down from its summit to its busc. The piles of rock on each hand, particularly on the Shenandoah — the evident marks of their... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1854 - 668 pages
...that the rivers began to flow afterward ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and evulsion from their beds... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds... | |
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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 up by... 
