. Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ... is in the county of Rockbridge, to which ithas given name, and affords a public and commodiouspaflage over a valley, which cannot be croflTed elfewherefor a confidcrable diftance. The flrcam paffing underit is called Cedar-creek. It is a water of James River,and fufficient in the drieft fe:ifons to turn a grift-mill,though its fountain is not more than two miles above. Don U
. Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ... is in the county of Rockbridge, to which ithas given name, and affords a public and commodiouspaflage over a valley, which cannot be croflTed elfewherefor a confidcrable diftance. The flrcam paffing underit is called Cedar-creek. It is a water of James River,and fufficient in the drieft fe:ifons to turn a grift-mill,though its fountain is not more than two miles above. Don UUoa mentions a break, fimilar to this, in theprovince of Angaraez, in South America. It is from16 to 22 feet wide, III feet deep, and of milescontinuance, Englilh meafures. Its breadth at topis not fenfihly greater than at bottom. Don ITlloa In-clines to the opinion, that this cha inel has been efi^ert-ed by the wearing of the water which runs throughit, rather than that the mountain ihould have beenbroken open by any convulfion of nature. But if ithad been worn by the running of water, would notthe rocks which form the fides have been worn plane ?or if, meeting in fome parts with vtins of haider ftone, the .^L. Plate CV]I r . .>;^./ /-y/Wrr/ur. /^//^V/.a/. ^rr //n/eirr/f » >^<^
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