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Excerpt from The Mother-in-Law, or Married in Haste I about to attempt the description of one of the most sublime and beautiful landscapes in Virginia. The river taking its rise in the Alleghany mountains, flows through the valley of Virginia, and, passing through a de file of the Blue Ridge mountains, falls, rearing and te bounding, from a rocky precipice, and boils howling on, over and between the jagged and pointed rocks sticking up or piled up in its channel. It is a wild, furious, and terri fying scene, inspiring delirium in the nervous beholder the thundering falls, the mad river foaming between its stu pendons banks, and the waters hissing and leaping from their rocky bed like frenzied thoughts from the brain of an enchained maniac. A quarter of a mile below this terrific scene the river declines, and, falling over a second ledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.