 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...lime stone, usually about 8 feet below the surface. There are every where apertures in this limpstone, through which the waters of the rivers sink into the...the dry season, than those of any part of the United Slates, and the small streams entirely disappear. The banks of the rivers are natural curiosities.... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...bed of lime stone, usually about 8 feet below the surface. Tiier<j are every where apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers...Kentucky, for this reason, are more diminished during the dr* season, than those of any part of the United Slates, and the small streams entirely disappear.... | |
 | 1823 - 322 pages
...limestone, usually about 8 feet below the surface. There are every where apertures in this limestone, H 2 through which the waters of the rivers sink into the...States, and the small streams entirely disappear. The principal religious denominations are Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists. The principal literary... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 886 pages
...immense bed of limestone, usually about 8 feet below the surface. There are every where apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers...the dry season, than those of any part of the United Slates, and the small streams entirely disappear. The banks of the rivers are natural curiosities ;... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - 1826 - 550 pages
...bed of limestone, usually about eight feet below the surface. There are everywhere apertures in this limestone, through which, the waters of the rivers...States, and the small streams entirely disappear. The banks of the river* are natural curiosities. They have generally worn very deep channels in the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 362 pages
...the character of the inhabitants lessen one's regret at leaving it."—Americans as they arc, p. 49. dry season, than those of any" part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear. They generally run in very deep channels, which they have worn in the calcareous rock ; and the banks... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...the character of the inhabitants lessen one's regret at leaving it."—Americans as they arc, p. 49, dry season, than those of any part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear. They generally run in very deep channels, which they have worn in the calcareous rock ; and the banks... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1834 - 336 pages
...bed of limestone, usually about eight feet below the surface. There are everywhere apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers...diminished during the dry season, than those of any other part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear. The banks of the rivers... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 300 pages
...bed of limestone, usually about eight feet below the surface. There are every where apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers sink into the earth. The large rivers of this state, for this reason, are more diminished during the dry season than those of any part of the... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1838 - 534 pages
...the rivers sin into the earth. The large rivers of Kentucky, for this reason, are more dimin ished during the dry season, than those of any part of the United States, an the small streams entirely disappear. The banks of the rivers are natura curiosities ; the rivers... | |
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The whole state, below the mountains, rests on an immense bed of limestone, usually about eight feet below the surface. There are every, where apertures in this limestone, through which the waters of the rivers sink into the earth. The large rivers of... 
