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 5 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … THE DISTRICT IN THE XVIII 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…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 6 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … NI aca- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 7 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … cer eS Ul — THE DIS PRIGT PN ire x VITE GRIN RY. HISTORY, SITE-STRATEGY, REAL ESTATE MARKET, LANDSCAPE, &c. AS DESCRIBED BY THE EARLIEST TRAVELLERS : HENRY WANSEY, FRANCIS BAILY, ISAAC…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … i Mer LIGRARY of CONSRESS Two Copies Received JAN 22 1809 Copyrigit entry g CopyricHT 1909 By A. J. Morrison. Ward. rs- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 9 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … CONTENTS PEECEROE Gate ye oral heen eats et hetas GLO Weaord acarehana ts A RtMepE NaS wes 5) cbeait whe, acauars ee MELO UP YAMVV ADS Veutaslrd O46 ier ccateisdeictest avesearehaies a…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 10 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … ig ‘ ed o- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 11 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … PREFACE Crevecceeur, in his ‘Letters of an American Farmer,’ (1787), is one of the few of the early travellers to mention except casually the importance of the system of water trans- portation…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 12 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Ry’ By the year 1775 certain adjustments had taken place in this sort of traffic, the conditions of which were the cause of the Revolution; after which change there was a disturbance…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 13 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … account there is no factor of the matter overlooked. Wan- sey enters in his pocket book what he has been told at a coffee-house, Washington being merely hearsay at that time. In…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 14 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, July 17, 1790 :— “Extract of a letter from New York dated July 15th, 3 o’clock P. M.—‘I have the pleasure of informing you of the…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 15 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … THE DISTRICT IN THE XVIIIT2? CENTURY “This was the sentiment that generally struck me most forcibly, as I travelled through the States—the appearance every where of a vast outline with much to…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 16 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … doah Valley. He thinks lands are not eligible more than forty-two or forty-three degrees of North latitude in the back country. He has often been to the new federal city of Wash-…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 17 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … was formed upon an exact meridian line, drawn for the pur- pose by a Mr. Ellicot, which passes through the Capitol, the seat of the legislature, on an eminence, from whence the…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 18 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … tic States, and preserve their federal union. In point of trade also, it will unite them by interest; as by a navigable cut, of only seventeen miles from Savage River? (a branch…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 19 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Produce and goods from the Ohio, can even now (by a land carriage of forty miles) be sent cheaper to Alexandria, than English goods can be delivered from Northampton to London. The…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 20 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … ine Isaac WELD. 1795. It may be taken for granted, in the first place, that the whole of the country bordering upon the Patowmac river, and upon those rivers which fall into…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 21 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … The passage back is very laborious as well as tedious; on which account they seldom think of bringing back boats which are sent down from Pittsburgh, but on arriving at New Orleans…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 22 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … likewise, which run through the city, Reedy Branch and Tiber Creek.* The perpendicular height of the source of the latter, above the level of the tide, is two hundred and thirty-six feet.…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 23 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … of the eastern branch, on account of the superiority of the harbour, and the great depth of the water near the shore. There are several other favourite situations, the choice of any…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 24 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … Wily Francis Barry. 1796. I set off on the 1st of September, 1796, to make a tour of the western country,—that land of Paradise, according to the flattering accounts given by Jmlay…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 25 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … SS town, and some of their vessels are employed in the London trade. There are stages run daily between this place and Baltimore, for which you pay four dollars. There are also…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 26 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … prospect is terminated only by the distant country. The banks on each side are covered with innumerable plantations, with the distant view of Alexandria and its towering steeples, about six miles below,…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 27 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … with the busy hum of men, and become the emporium of whatever shall be worthy the observation of man. Building lots in this city sell from six to twenty-five cents (a cent…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 28 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … IV. DuKE or LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT. 1797. ROAD TO FEDERAL CITY. SEY eK: VES KS LeK I had met in passing over Mount-Pleasant-ferry a young man, who understanding that I intended to go…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 29 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … services sufficient not to be treated so rigorously: and as for me, if this country should go to war with France, I would go over to the side of the French, and…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 30 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … the piracies which are exercised at this time by her com- missioners in the West Indies, at which every honest French- man revolts who is a friend to his country, under whatever…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 31 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … | and of the means employed for its execution, of its situation, actual and designed, as well! as a mature examination of all the circumstances enable me to foresee. A little time…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
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Image 32 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … till the first Monday of December 1800, the period of its installation in its permanent residence. The Congress had been previously assured of the favour- able disposition of the States of Virginia…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 33 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … loan, and the means of its re-payment, the United States undertaking to make good the deficiency, if there should be any. The same law enjoined the commissioners to make a return every…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 34 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … great advantage to the new city. Two lotteries were author- ized by the State of Maryland, in 1798, for the forming such a canal; each lottery consisting of a hundred and seventy-…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 35 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … annually—that is to say, about sixty-eight thousand dollars yearly, the purchase money for the whole being four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. The lots purchased by Mr. Morris from individuals amounted to…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 36 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … the last comers constantly paying a higher price, and the situation of the lots also making a difference in their value. Some of the more recent purchasers, in order to have one…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 37 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … prohibition of the State of Maryland to make private lot- teries, without the authority of the legislature. They were powerfully patronized by the commissioners, who considered them as the means of advancing…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 38 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … already built was the proper spot to begin the new city, by facilitating and augmenting its resources. They boasted of the port of George-Town, and represented the commerce already belonging to the…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 39 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … The commissioners, to whom was entrusted the erection of public edifices, were accused by the proprietors that lay at a distance from George-Town of paying an undue atten- tion to the completion…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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Image 40 of The District in the XVIIIth century; history, site-strategy, real estate market, landscape, &c. … in his own possession, by the neighbourhood of the inhab- itants he has drawn around him. The happiness of others is the proper element of his success. If he is of a…- Contributor: Morrison, Alfred J. (Alfred James)
- Date: 1909
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
- image