 Baring was on a visit to the Falls of Niagara, and having almost exhausted his patience, at the state of the roads and the difficulties he had encountered, he expressed a doubt whether Niagara itself would furnish an adequate recompense for the fatigue...  France: Its King, Court and Government - Page 127by Lewis Cass - 1840 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...we gaze upon its height and proportions can we feel the full effect of its beauty and grandeur. — The passage of the Potomac through the, Blue ridge at Harper's ferry, forms a scene truly grand and magnificent. — The falling spring in Bath connty is a beautiful cascade,... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...we gaze upon its height and proportions can we feel the full effect of its beauty and grandeur. — The passage of the Potomac through' the Blue ridge at Harper's ferry, forms n scene truly grand and magnificent. — The falling spring in Bath county is a beautiful cascade,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 398 pages
...proceed horizontally about 400 feet. The passage is from 20 to 50 f(;et wide, and 4 or 5 feet high. The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, at Harper's ferry, is celebrated as a beautiful and sublime spectacle. Soil. As respects soil, Virginia may be divided... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - America - 1823 - 532 pages
...in Bath county, forms a beautiful cascade, streaming from a perpendicular precipice 200 feet high. The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge at Harper's Ferry, is celebrated for its grandeur and magnificence. There are many mineral springs in Virginia: the hot... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Geography - 1838 - 300 pages
...called ? Do any of the rivers in Virginia pass through the Blue Ridge ? What did Mr. Jefferson say of the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge at Harper's Ferry ? A. He said it was worth a voyage across the Atlantic to see this beautiful and stupendous scene.... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 574 pages
...when they are not apprehensive of detection, and who are not proud of cheating the Tshin-o-ke-mann.* The travellers pursued their way to Buffalo, and from...insensibility, persons who had heard the noise of the Cata* The Indian name for a white man. ract during many years of their lives. I should not like to... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...when they are not apprehensive of detection, and who are not proud of cheating the Tshin-o-ke-mann.* The travellers pursued their way to Buffalo, and from...insensibility, persons who had heard the noise of the Cata* The Indian name for a white man. ract during many years of their lives. I should not like to... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...but some mountains in the Allegheny ridge, in the southwestern part, reach the height of 6,000 feet. The passage of the Potomac, through the Blue Ridge, at Harper's Ferry, presents the appearance of an immense rent, three quarters of a mile wide, through a stupendous wall... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 534 pages
...flows ; from the surface of the water to the roadway over the bridge, the height is above 200 feet. The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge at Harper's Ferry is one of the most striking phenomena of a mountain-range, which has apparently been interrupted by... | |
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