Mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley;

that, continuing to rise, they have at length broken over at this

spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.

"The piles of reckon each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah,

the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds

by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression.

But the distant finishing which nature has given to this picture,

is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the