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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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land, a gallant soldier of the Revolution,started on the important survey. The party sailed lor a number ofdays in their humble bark amid the sublime scenery of the upperPotomac, and made a complete exploration, the result of their workbeing that a company was finally organized for the improvement ofthe river, and nearly a million dollars expended in a series of years.During this unique voyage the distinguished party would seek quar-ters for the night at the houses of well-to-do planters who lived nearthe river, and evervwhere thev were received as hiofhlv honored guests,and a most generous hospitality was dispensed. One night they werecompelled to lodge at the house of a planter whose accommodationswere rather scanty, and Washington, Governor Johnson, and anothergentleman were given a room with two small beds. The great chief-tain with a smile turned to his companions and said, Come, gentle-men, who will be my bed-fellow? They both declined the honor, EARLY HISTORY AND TRADITIONS. 23
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SEVEXTH STREET, NORTHWEST. however, and the Maryland governor, in relating the incident alter-ward, said, Greatlv as I should have felt honored by such distinction,yet the awe and reverence which I always felt in the presence of thatadmirable man prevented me from approaching him so nearly. There was a severe contest over the selection of the Federal Ter-ritory. In the Congress of the Confederation the question of a per-manent seat of government was broached, and propositions to estab-lish a Federal town, a Federal house for Congress and for the Ex-ecutive officers, on the banks of the Delaware River near the LowerFalls, and also at Georgetown on the Potomac, were entertained, butdid not receive special sanction. The matter was somewhat discussedin the convention held in Philadelphia in 1787, to revise the Federalsystem of government, but it was not until the second session of theFirst Congress of the United States under the Constitution, held inNew York in the summer of 1790, that it

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