Potomac landings . gs, trees, and streets come abreast and slip intothe wake, the horizon ahead develops the familiar out-lines of the circling panorama of our national capital,the City of Washington. The high horizon lifts the landmarks in silhouetteagainst the sky. On the western hills gleam the whiteportico of old Arlington House and the new marbles ofthe Memorial Amphitheatre dedicated to the nationssoldier and sailor dead. Beyond are the gray spires ofGeorgetown University. Above the treetops at thewaters edge rises the Lincoln Memorial, the newParthenon of the western world. To the east
Potomac landings . gs, trees, and streets come abreast and slip intothe wake, the horizon ahead develops the familiar out-lines of the circling panorama of our national capital,the City of Washington. The high horizon lifts the landmarks in silhouetteagainst the sky. On the western hills gleam the whiteportico of old Arlington House and the new marbles ofthe Memorial Amphitheatre dedicated to the nationssoldier and sailor dead. Beyond are the gray spires ofGeorgetown University. Above the treetops at thewaters edge rises the Lincoln Memorial, the newParthenon of the western world. To the east thelantern of the Library of Congress gives back to thesun the glint of its own golden rays, and even moreprominent is the familiar white dome of the Capitol ofthe Republic. But centred on the river, reachingheavenward above every other detail of the environ-ment, simple and superb, is the monument dedicated tothe memory of Washington himself, father of his countryand greatest of the many great sons of the w Z. _£ o y-*l o h-l ^ _S 4) ?-^ cS ^JJ i OJ POTOMAC LANDINGS 3G1 There is a subtle irony and a curious inadvertentappropriateness in the fact that the national capital,bartered in an irrelevant political deal, should havebeen set down at the head of tidewater Potomac. Theriver seems to acknowledge the beautiful city as itsmistress, and to bring its homage to her feet. By dayand year and decade its tides rise and rise as far as, butno farther than, the wide-flung flowering hem of hermantle of green. Here the queenly city stands, theculmination and the symbol of the history that wasenacted along the river during three centuries whichproduced the finest flavour of our colonial civilizationand an unsurpassed group of political philosophersand patriots in support of the rivers own RichardHenry Lee, George Mason, and George Washington. THE END INDEX INDEX Abingdon, 109, 135, 171. Accopatough, 72. Accotink. 359; Creek or Bay, 18,19, 358. Actors, 145, 147, 278, 302-4. Add
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