Extract from Margaret Bayard Smith’s Recollection of a Visit to Monticello, [29 July–2 Aug. 1809] [Quote]

“Here,” said he, casting his eyes on the level plain before us, “Here you can form no adequate idea of the beauty or sublimity of a winter’s storm; but standing, as I have often stood at Monticello, to watch its progress—rising over the distant Alleghany, come sweeping and roaring on, mountain...

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