Book/Printed Material The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. as described by the earliest travellers: Henry Wansey, Francis Baily, Isaac Weld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, John Davis of Salisbury
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Image 41 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … from his system, by the necessary calculations of his interest. If those calculations induce him to expend sums for build- ings, it is to erect taverns, shops, to open billiard-tables, and to…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 42 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … 1793, to 87,400 dollars; in 1794, to 139,964 dollars; in 1795, to 153,584 dollars; and in 1796, to 29,193 dollars. The shipping it employs in its foreign trade is at present about…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 43 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … The merchants of George-Town persuade themselves that they will reap the greater part of the benefit of these naviga- tions. Being placed the first on the route of those who will bring…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 44 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … ten feet high, placed at its upper extremity, convey vessels down the river. The smaller falls are not strictly such; but the water is sufficiently checked and disturbed in its course to…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 45 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … city, and to choose it for the place of his residence. It ap- pears to me, that he might have made a more prudent and fortunate use of the great property he…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 46 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … larging, leaves nothing to be seen at length but the horizon. In this passage the country closes till the prospect is bounded by the chain of mountains which form the falls at…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 47 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … nificence, all are convenient and neat; and the houses are of two stories. The quays are large and commodious, and extend along the river every way. This town increases very rapidly, owing…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 48 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Ve JOHN Davis oF SALISBURY. 1801. “In this City may that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magna- nimity, that constancy and self-government, which adorned the great character whose name it bears,…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 49 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Virgima, and partly in the State of Maryland; and was ceded, as everybody knows, by those two States, to the United - States of America; by which it was established the seat…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 50 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … the abrupt hill to the South of the Capitol has been effect- ually removed. Of the public edifices, the Capitol and President’s house are the most magnificent. They are built of freestone…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 51 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … tomac, vies with it in breadth; but in tracing it to its source, this mighty mouth diminishes; and, at Bladensburgh, to cross its rustic bridge, the wheels of a carriage have not…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 52 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … will form a variety of fanciful cascades, delighting the eye, and refreshing the air. Let me now come to the object of my journey to Washing- ton. The politeness of a member…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 53 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … which stands opposite the Treasury. At this tavern I took my meals at the public table, where there was every day to be found a number of clerks, employed at the different…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 54 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … half way to Alexandria. Here having quaffed and smoked together under the shade of a spreading locust tree, we once more committed ourselves to the waters of the Potomac. It was easier…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 55 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … NOTES. 1The Tontine Coffee House. See Wansey’s Journal, pp. 73-74 :— “Boston is the Bristol, New York the Liverpool, and Philadelphia the London of America. The Tontine tavern and coffee-house [at New…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 56 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … “There will therefore be a competition between the Hudson and Patowmac rivers for the residue of the commerce of all the country westward of Lake Hrie, on the waters of the lakes,…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 57 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Cumberland across the mountains to Brownsville on the ease ela: a distance of 72 miles.” “Captain Williamson of Genesee. See Duke of La Rochefoucauld- Liancourt, Vol. I, p. 185 :— “Captain Williamson…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 58 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … APPENDIX. I. Henry Wansey, F. A. S., [1752-1827], in middle life retired from business, as a manufacturer of cloth, and de- voted his time to travel, literature, and antiquarian research. He was…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 59 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … he was especially known as a student of astronomy, reviser of star catalogues, and reformer of the Nautical Almanac. He was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Soci- ety, and…
- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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About this Item
Title
- The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. as described by the earliest travellers: Henry Wansey, Francis Baily, Isaac Weld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, John Davis of Salisbury
Names
- Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James), 1876-1923
Created / Published
- [Washington] Printed by Judd & Detweiler, 1909.
Headings
- - Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel
- - Washington (D.C.)--History
Notes
- - Preface signed: Alfred J. Morrison.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 53 p. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F197 .M87
Library of Congress Control Number
- 09003201
Online Format
- online text
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