Excerpt from Picturesque Washington: Pen and Pencil Sketches of Its Scenery, History, Traditions, Public and Social Life, With Graphic Descriptions of the Capitol, the Senate Chamber, and House of Representatives, the White House and the Government Departments, Together With Artistic Views A
IN the following pages the author has endeavored to narrate Clearly and accurately the interesting story of the capital of the American Nation - how it has grown in the less than one hundred years of its existence from an unpromising settlement to be a bright, delightful, and prosperous city: a capital worthy of the Nation that has become in about the same length of time one of the grandest and most powerful in the world.
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