. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . d there by several decades too soon, Richmond, indeed, had no importance until it sup-planted Williamsburg as the seat of the State government in 1779, and so little preparedwas it for defence in war that it was given up to the British troops, in Arnolds descentupon Virginia, without the firing of a gun, and Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, of the QueensRangers, rode into it
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . d there by several decades too soon, Richmond, indeed, had no importance until it sup-planted Williamsburg as the seat of the State government in 1779, and so little preparedwas it for defence in war that it was given up to the British troops, in Arnolds descentupon Virginia, without the firing of a gun, and Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, of the QueensRangers, rode into it with barely a show of opposition. Immediately after the War of the Revolution, sanguine expectations were entertainedthat Richmond would soon become, not only the seat of a large trade, but a centreof learning and science. Commercial relations were established with London, and vesselsof small tonnage made passages of sixty days from the wharves of Richmond to thepool of the Thames, Before many years an India-house was built, with the vague ideathat the fabrics and spices of the East would be brought from Bombay and Calcuttadirect to the capital of Virginia. But polite learning was to keep pace with material. Q00 o X 2o ffib Q2O u
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