 | François Jean marquis de Chastellux - United States - 1787 - 458 pages
...mountains were formed fc firft, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that " in this place particularly they have been dammed " up by the Blue Ridge of mountains,...to rife, they have at length broken " over at this fpot, and have torn the mountain " down from its fummit to its bafe. The piles of I " rock on each... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...mountains were formed first, that the livers began to flow afterWards, that in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...were “formed first, that the rivers began to flow “afterwards; that in this place particularly, “they have been dammed up by the Blue “ridge of...which filled the whole valley; that “continuing to' rise, they have at length “broken over at this spot, and have torn 348 HARPER'S FERRY. “the mountain... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1818 - 216 pages
...fo'med first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly, they have beeD> dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which tilled the whole vatlej' : that-' continuing to rise, they have at length broken over at this spot,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...were formed first, that the rivers began to flow • afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have - been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its aummit... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 478 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; that continuing to rise' they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 440 pages
...were formed first ; that the " rivers begun to flow afterwards ;—that in this " place particularly, they have been dammed up " by the Blue ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole " valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at " length broken over at this spot, and have torn " the mountain down from its summit... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 442 pages
...were formed first; that the " rivers begun to flow afterwards;—that in this " place particularly, they have been dammed up " by the Blue ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole " valley ; that continuing to rise, they have at " length broken over at this spot, and have torn " the mountain down from its summit... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterwards; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole valley; that, continuing to rise, they have, at length, broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down, from its summit... | |
 | Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - United States - 1828 - 478 pages
...mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains,...which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit... | |
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they have been dammed up by the blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rife they have at length broken over at this 
