 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable !' The fissure...considerable distance above and below the bridge, opens ashort*but very pleasing view of the North mountain on^orie side, and Blue ridge on the other, at the... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1804 - 356 pages
...here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, ?o light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure...below the bridge, opens a short but very pleasing view ol the North JVIountain on one side, and Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing up as it were to heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure...short, but very pleasing view, of the North Mountain on the one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance, each of them, of about five miles.... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...really in" describable ! The fissure continuing " narrow, deep, and straight, for a consider" able distance above and below the bridge, " opens a short,...but very pleasing view, " of the North Mountain on the one side, " and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the " distance, each of them, of about five *'... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1819 - 592 pages
...and springing up as it were to " heaven ! The rapture of the spectator is really " indescribable I The fissure continuing narrow, ** deep, and straight,...but *' very pleasing view, of the North Mountain on " the one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other, '* at the distance, each of them, of about five **... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure...pleasing view of the North Mountain on one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance, each of them, of about five miles.* The stream passing... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...here : so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure...pleasing view of the North Mountain on one side, and the Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance, each of them, of about five miles.* The stream passing... | |
 | Gift books - 1831 - 234 pages
...infinite wisdom the universe, with all its wonders, was created. Through the fissure, which continues narrow, deep, and straight, for a considerable distance above and below the bridge, the spectator catches a pleasing view of the North-mountain on one side and Blue-ridge on the other,... | |
 | A. N. - Southern States - 1833 - 110 pages
...are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, springing as it were up to heaven! The rapture of the spectator is really indescribable. The fissure...and Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of about five miles. This bridge affords a public and commodious passage over, a valley which cannot be... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable ! The fissure,...at the distance, each of them, of about five miles. 4. This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a publick and... | |
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If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing... 
