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... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down...

The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United ... - Stranica 366
napisao/la Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - Broj stranica: 536
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Rambles in the Path of the Steam-horse: An Off-hand Olla Podrida, Embracing ...

Eli Bowen - 1855 - Broj stranica: 442

...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion• that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed...

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