 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 páginas
...mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Fredericktown, and the fine country round...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... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1814 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 564 páginas
...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... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1818 - 384 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1819 - 592 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 páginas
...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... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 442 páginas
...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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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,... 
