Jefferson and Monticello by Jack Mclaughlin

Author:Jack Mclaughlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. 449 You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Patowmac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off into the sea … . 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 rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center.

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