. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . DUTCH GAP FALLING CREEK. THE END OF THE VOYAGE Among the beaux of the stirring days justbefore the Revolution, she was a reigningtoast under the popular name of NancyWilton. The second Benjamin Harrisonof Brandon was among her wooers; and itis to his courtship that Thomas Jefferson re-fers when expressing, in one of
. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . DUTCH GAP FALLING CREEK. THE END OF THE VOYAGE Among the beaux of the stirring days justbefore the Revolution, she was a reigningtoast under the popular name of NancyWilton. The second Benjamin Harrisonof Brandon was among her wooers; and itis to his courtship that Thomas Jefferson re-fers when expressing, in one of his letters, thehope that his old college roommate may haveluck at Wilton. He did have. And weremembered the sweet-faced portrait at Bran-don of Nancy Wilton Harrison. Soon, our course was along a naiTow chan-nel saw-toothed with jetties on either signs of life upon the river told that wewere nearing Richmond. We passed somework-boats, tugs, dredges, and such craft, andeverybody whistled. Over the top of a rise of land that markedthe next bend of the river, we saw an uglydark cloud. It had been long since we hadseen a cloud like that; but there is no mis-taking the black hat of a city. So, there was Richmond seated beside thefalls in the James — those water-bars that ther
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