 | Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...which a few miles above is half a mile wide, is here comprefled td ftie width of about 100 yards. Juft as it enters the mountain, a large rock projects from the northern ihore in an oblique direction, which renders the bed of the river flill narrower, and caufes a fudden... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...miles above is half a mile wide, is here comprefled to the width of about one hundred yards ; juft as it enters the mountain, a large rock projects from the northern fliore in an oblique direction, which renders the bed of the river ftill narrower, and caufes a fudden... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...Cumberland mountains. The stream, which n few miles above, is half u mile wide, is here compressed to the width of about 70 yards. Just as it enters the mountain, a large rock projects from the" f northern shore, which causes a sudden bend in the river ; the water is thrown with great violence... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 338 pages
...miles, till you come to the Suck or Whirl, where the river breaks through the Cumberland mountains. The river is here compressed to a width of about 70...yards. Just as it enters the mountain, a large rock projecting from the northern shore, causes a sudden bend in the river ; 1,008. Tewksburu , t. Hunterdon... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852 - 752 pages
...Cumberland Mountains: here the river is compressed to a width of 70 yards. Just as it enters the mountains a large rock projects from the northern shore, which' causes a sudden bend in the river, and throws the water with great violence against the southern shore, when it rebounds around the point... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...Cumberland Mountains: here the river is compressed to a width of 70 yards. Just as it enters the mountains a large rock projects from the northern shore, which causes a sudden bend in the river, and throws the water with great violence against the southern shore, when it rebounds around the point... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 478 pages
...where the river breaks through the Cumberland mountains. Just at the entrance of the mountains, a great rock projects fr'om the northern shore, which causes...the river. The water is thrown with great violence against the southern shore, whence it rebounds around the point of the rock, and produces the whirl.... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - 1808 - 326 pages
...curiosity. The river which a few miles above is half a mile wide, is here compressed within one hundred yards. Just as it enters the mountain, a large rock projects from the northern shore, in an oblique direction, which renders the bed of the river still narrower, and causes a sudden bend... | |
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... in an oblique direction, which renders the bed of the river still narrower, and causes a sudden bend; the water of the river is, of course, thrown with great rapidity against the southern shore, whence it bounds round the point of a rock and produces... 