The Cousins' Journey: Or, Sketches of American SceneryA. N. Leonard C. Bowles, 1833 - 102 Seiten |
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Abingdon Alleghany Alleghany mountains amusing appeared arch bad roads bank Battletown beautiful Blountsville blue boat brother carriage Choctaw cousin Ann dark dear aunt dear sister descended dirty distance eight evergreen father feel feet Fincastle five miles ford Frederic and Maria ginseng give glad Hector hill Holston river horses Huntsville Indian James journey Keasleton Knoxville leave length Leslie letter little Ann looked Magnolia Grove mica miles farther morning moss mother mountains Natchez Natural Bridge objects Orleans pass the night pedlar Plato pleasant pleasure Port Republic rain reached rest ridge river rock rode rough road Russelville safely scarcely scenery seemed seen seven miles show-man side sight six miles soon stalactites Staunton Steamboat steep stream Sugs tavern tell ther thick thing thought tion told Tombeckbee town travellers trees twelve miles twenty wagon wish woods write young folks
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Seite 42 - Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ache. 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 as it were up to heaven! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!
Seite 41 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it.
Seite 40 - Nature's works ... is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. The fissure, just at the bridge, is, by some admeasurements, 270 feet deep, by others only 205. It is about 45 feet wide at the bottom, and 90 feet at the top; this of course determines the length of the bridge, and its height from the water.
Seite 41 - ... feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone. The arch approaches the Semi-elliptical form; but the larger axis of the ellipsis, which would be the cord of the arch, is many times longer than the (semi-axis which gives it's height...
Seite 40 - Its breadth in the middle is about 60 feet, but more at the ends, and the thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about 40 feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone. The arch approaches the Semi-elliptical form...
Seite 42 - JVIountain on one side, and Blue Ridge on the other, at the distance each of them of about five miles. This bridge is in the county of Rock-bridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley, winch cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable diitance.
Seite 91 - No," I answered, and my heart was full as I said it, "things are never again as they once were." My landlady raised one hand to my forehead and she pushed back my hair. "Josef, my son," she said, "when you are as old" as I am you will be glad that this is so." , That afternoon I rose early, for I could not sleep, and I went to walk in the Park. I kept to the sidepaths where there were few people, but in spite of everything whom should I meet but Ito, entering the Park at one of the big gateways....
Seite 89 - It seemed to be floating in the air, and came in such liquid tones first from one side of the boat and then from the other...