 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 sidor
...bridge, i* by fome admeafurements two hundred and feventy feet deep, by others only two hundred and five. It is about forty-five feet wide at the bottom, and ninety feet at the top ; this of courfe determines the length of the bridge, and its height from the water. Its breadth in the middle... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1804 - 356 sidor
...place in a work of this nature. It 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 two hundred and seventy feet deep, but by others only two hundred and five. It is about forty-live... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1810 - 346 sidor
...most sublime of nature's woks. It is oh 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 two hundred and seventy feet deep. It is about forty feet wide at the bottom, and nine feet at the... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 440 sidor
...most sublime of Nature's works, .is on the asce,nt of a hill, ;which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. The fissure,...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... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 438 sidor
...most sublime of 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 sqme admeasurements, 270 feet deep, by others only 205 ; it is about 45 feet wide at the bottom, and... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 sidor
...head, must not he pretermitted. It 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, two hundred and seventy feet deep, by others only two hundred and five. It is about forty-five feet... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 362 sidor
...follows : " The Natural Bridge is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven throughout its length by some great convulsion. The fissure just...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,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 sidor
...follows: " The Natural Bridge is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven throughout its length by some great convulsion. The fissure just...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,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 sidor
...most 'sublime of 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 sidor
...head, must not be pretermitted. It is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. The fissure,...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,... | |
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The Natural Bridge, the most sublime of nature's works, though .not comprehended under the present head, must not be pretermitted. It is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. 
