Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . rfrom the junction of the two rivers, between the Capitol andGeorgetown, and in a lower, baser site. Out on the extremecape, between the rivers, lies the Arsenal, connected with thecity by a straggling line of houses ; it was the place of the trialand exe
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . rfrom the junction of the two rivers, between the Capitol andGeorgetown, and in a lower, baser site. Out on the extremecape, between the rivers, lies the Arsenal, connected with thecity by a straggling line of houses ; it was the place of the trialand execution of the assassins of President Lincoln. Furtherup the East Branch, where the only bridge crosses it, lies theNavy Yard, a walled in and busy area of twenty-eight acres ;over this bridge Booth and Harrold escaped to Surrats-ville and lower Maryland; still further up the East Branch 350 VIEW OF THE CONGRESSIONAL, BURYING GROUND. lies the Congressional Burying Ground, and to both theNavy Yard and the cemetery, lines of disconnectedhouses radiate from the Cap-itol. Around the Navy Yardthere is a large and elderlysettlement, to which a streetrailway runs, and amidst itthe town tower of the oldestchurch in Washington, whereworshiped Jefferson and Mad-ison. The front of the Cap-itol inclines this way, andover the high, thickly settledplateau looks out the Statue mof Liberty over your headIts back is toward the real city; behind it eighty-nine thou-sand people live ; in front of it not more than fifteen thousand. Now turn yourself around, with your back against the backof the statue, and look away from the Navy Yard: Beneath you are the terraces of the Capitol and the the bottom of the lawn great avenues radiate; that tothe left leads to the Long Bridge and indices Arlington Man-sion, far up the Virginia Hills, a steam railroad passes alongit and crosses the bridge to Alexan
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