A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States (1848) (14759662686)

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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States

Year: 1848 (1840s)

Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892

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Publisher: United States

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t!u west to within a quar-ter of a mile of the Capitol hill, andnearly divided the plain. Not far fromthe head of this, and south of the Capi-tol hill, a small stieam took its rise in alarge number of springs, and emptiedinto the river at a place now calledGreenleafs point, formed by the inter-section of the eastern branch with thePotomac, and was known as Jonesscreek. There is a stream above George-town, which has always been calledGoose creek ; but from a certificate ofa survey now preserved in the mayorsoffice at Washington, dated 1663, it ap-pears that the inlet from the Potomacwas then known by the name of Tiber,and probably the stream from the northemptying into it bore the same name ; sothat Moore did injustice to the historyof the place, and confounded streams,when he wrote the well-known line— And what was Goose creek once is Tiber now.By the same survey it appears that theland comprising the Capitol hill wascalled Rome, or Room, two nameswhich seem to have foreshadowed the

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 281 desriny of the place. It is thought thatthey probably originated in the fact thatthe name of the owner of the estate wasPope, and in selecting a name for hisplantation, he formed the title of Popeof Rome. It is said that Washingtons attentionhad been called to the advantages whichthis place presented for a city, as longprevious as when he had been a youth-ful surveyor of the country round. Hisjudgment was confirmed by the fact thattwo towns were afterward planned onthe spot, and the first maps of the cityrepresent it as laid out over the plainsof Hamburgh and Carrollsville. The canoe, or pirogue, in which Gen-eral Washington and a party of friendsfirst made the survey of the Potomac,was hollowed out of a large poplar-treeon the estate of Col. Johnson, of Fred-erick county, Maryland. This humblebark was placed upon a wagon, hauledto the margin of the Monocasy river,launched into the stream, and there re-ceived its honored freight. The genera

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