 | 1788
...actually to lead. You crofs the Paiowmac _ above rhe junction, pafs along its "ide through the bafe of the mountain for three miles, its terrible .precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within about twenty miles reach Fiederic town and the "fine country round thai. This fcene is worth a voyage acrofs... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 536 pages
...happens actually to lead. You crofs the Patomak above the junction, pafs along its fide through the bafe of the mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices...fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Frederick town and the fine country round that. This fcene is worth a voyage acrofs the Atlantic. Yet... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795
...road actually leads. You crofs the Potomack above the- junction, pafj ajong its fide through the bafe of the mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within, about twenty miles reach Frederick-town and the fme country round that. This fcene js worth a voyage acrofs... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 492 pages
...happens actually to lead. You crofs the Patowmac above the junction, pafs along its fide through the bafe of the mountain, for three miles, its terrible precipices...fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Fredericktown, and the fine country round that. This fcene is worth a voyage acrofs the Atlantic. Yet... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1802 - 432 pages
...aihially leads. ^You crçfs the Patoroak above tie junñion, pals along its fide through the bafe of th: mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within about zo miles reach í'rederu ktown, and the fine country round it. This 'fcene is worth a voyage acrofs... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 363 pages
...breach and participate of the calm below- Here th'e eye ultimately composes itself; and that way to the road happens actually to lead- You cross the Patowmac...fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Fredericktown, and the fine country round that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 332 pages
...true " contrast to the foreground. It is as placid " and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents...three miles, " its terrible precipices hanging in frag" ments over you, and within about 20 miles " reach, Fredericktown, and the fine coun" try round... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 332 pages
...ultimately composes itself; and that way too, the road happens actually to lead. You cross the Patomac above the junction, pass along its side through the...over you, and within about 20 miles reach Frederic (down, and the fine country round it. This scene is worth a voyage across fhe Atlantick : yet here,... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1819 - 421 pages
...You " cross the Patowmac above the junction, pass " along its side through the base of the moun" tain for three miles, its terrible precipices " hanging...fragments over you, and within " about 20 miles reach, Fredericktown, and " the fine country around it. This scene is " worth a voyage across the Atlantic... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 346 pages
...the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach, and participate of the calm helow. Here the eye ultimately composes itself ; and that...the fine country around that. This scene is worth a voyagp across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighbouihood 104 AMERICAN CURIOSITIES, &C. of the... | |
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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... 
