Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . Nevilles hostelry where the surveyors lodged. the one he followed n year after on his expedition in which occurred the en pi t-ulation of Fort Necessity; and the one over which marched in 1755 a portion of thearmy of General Edward Bruddock against the French and Indians. At nightfall on the first day of their journey bad as the roads or paths must havebeen at that time of the year,^ind full tiowingas were all of the intervening stre
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . Nevilles hostelry where the surveyors lodged. the one he followed n year after on his expedition in which occurred the en pi t-ulation of Fort Necessity; and the one over which marched in 1755 a portion of thearmy of General Edward Bruddock against the French and Indians. At nightfall on the first day of their journey bad as the roads or paths must havebeen at that time of the year,^ind full tiowingas were all of the intervening streamsfrom the snows and winter rains, the surveyors had made over forty miles of theirjourney, which brought them to the headwaters of Bull Run, a stream flowinginto the Occoquan river and which a hundred years after was to become so famousfor its conflicts of the civil war. Ht^re they found generous hospitality in the THE STORY OF THE YOUNG SURVEYORS. 7 back-woods-man st_yle, and a good nights rest under the cabin roof of Squire Ne-ville, a cousin of the Fairfaxes and well known to them both, who had come upto the isolated locality near twenty years before
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