...the pleasure of seeing the Natural Bridge. Likewise. Jefferson remarks that another landscape records "a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth to its centre." Such observations were later systematized by Cuvier into a general theory of catastrophe,...

...hanging in fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Frederic town and the fine country around that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic....mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center. The height of our mountains has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness. The Allegheny...

...country around that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighbourhood of the natural bridge, are people who have passed...mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center. (Jefferson 1982, 19). Using the second person, Jefferson effectively puts the reader within...

...through the base of the mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and, within about twenty miles, reach Fredericktown,...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre/'* * The reflections I was led into, on vieAving this passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge were,...

...here, as in the neighbourhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within a half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." WIER'S CAve, VIRGINIA. In the limestone country of Virginia there are several caves of considerable...