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Stran 227 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Stran 281 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious Flood Rolls fair and placid ; where, collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
Stran 221 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA HAVE CAUSED THIS STATUE TO BE ERECTED AS A MONUMENT OF AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON ; WHO, UNITING TO THE ENDOWMENTS OF THE HERO THE VIRTUES OF THE PATRIOT, AND EXERTING BOTH IN ESTABLISHING THE LIBERTIES OF HIS COUNTRY, HAS RENDERED HIS NAME DEAR TO HIS FELLOW CITIZENS, AND GIVEN THE WORLD AN IMMORTAL EXAMPLE OF TRUE GLORY.
Stran 240 - The vault of this cave is of solid lime-stone, from twenty to forty or fifty feet high ; through which water is continually percolating. This, trickling down the sides of the cave, has incrusted them over in the form of elegant drapery ; and dripping from the top of the vault generates on that and on the base below, stalactites of a conical form, some of which have met and formed massive columns.
Stran 239 - It is, in my judgment, one of the great natural wonders of this new world ; and for its eminence in its own class, deserves to be ranked with the Natural Bridge and Niagara, while it is far less known than either. Its dimensions, by the most direct course, are more than 1,600 feet; and by the more winding paths, twice that length ; and its objects are remarkable for their variety, formation, and beauty. In both respects, it will, I think, compare, without injury to itself, with the celebrated Grotto...
Stran 263 - Col. Campbell was chosen to act as commandant till such general officer should arrive. We marched to the Cowpens, on Broad river, in South Carolina, where we were joined by Col. James Williams...
Stran 229 - Indian art. their paintings, weapons, ornaments and manufactures ; on another, an array of -the fossil productions of our country, mineral and animal ; the polished remains of those colossal monsters that once trod our forests, and are no more ; and a variegated display of the branching honors of those " monarchs of the waste," that still people the wilds of the American Continent.
Stran 304 - Anthony, that it,swallows up one river after another, with mouths as wide as itself, without affecting its width at all; when he sees it receiving, in succession, the mighty Missouri, the broad Ohio, St. Francis, White, Arkansas, and Red Rivers, all of them of great depth, length, and volume of water...
Stran 241 - ... feet. On this standing, which, by its elevated and detached character, affects you like the Monument, the forest rises above and around you. Beneath and before you is spread a lovely valley. A peaceful river glides down it, reflecting, like a mirror, all the lights of heaven ; washes the foot of the rocks on which you are standing ; and then winds away into another valley at your right. The trees of the wood, in all their variety, stand out on the verdant bottoms, with their heads in the sun,...
Stran 210 - ... is crossed by a viaduct 700 feet long, and rising in a succession of steps — embracing also a crossing of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This extensive bridge carries us out of Virginia and lands us once more in Old Maryland, which we left at Harper's Ferry, and kept out of for a distance of 91 miles. The route thence to Cumberland is across two bends of the river, between which the stream of Evett's Creek is crossed by a viaduct of 100 feet span.