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 . dowing boughs, and make .merry on the inviting green sward. Ar istscome to sketch the delightful and varied views of its environs, the cycler to wheel overthe smooth avenues, the angler to throw his line into the still river nooks, and thewearied, like myself, to seek the balm of rest. In this ideal home by the Potomac I found a welcome and a hospitality which re- 30 SOME OLD HISTOKIC LANDMARKS called the many stories I had read, of
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 . dowing boughs, and make .merry on the inviting green sward. Ar istscome to sketch the delightful and varied views of its environs, the cycler to wheel overthe smooth avenues, the angler to throw his line into the still river nooks, and thewearied, like myself, to seek the balm of rest. In this ideal home by the Potomac I found a welcome and a hospitality which re- 30 SOME OLD HISTOKIC LANDMARKS called the many stories I had read, of entertainments in Virginia homes of the oldentime. For tired nature there was no lack of sweet restorers. There were libraries,inviting to every range and department of knowledge. There was music to sootheand harmonize, pictures, and cabinets of curios to amuse, and a wilderness of flowersto please the eye. All too swiftly passed the lime, as I fondly tarried in the midst of so many allurementsfrom the dull and perplexing routine of business in the city. Hours of the bright mid-summer days I watched from the vine-hung verandas of the Old Mansion, the broad. o z c e4 rivers expanse before me, vi-ith its flitting shadows, its sails, and passing it was a leisurely stroll along the pebbly shore, or boating in the still watersthat beguiled me, and sometimes it was straying over the site of the old Indian town ofAsasomeck, looking for arrow heads, javelin points, fragments of pottery, and other re-mains of the ancient dwellers. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 81 One serene evening, as the parting rays of the setting sun were fading beyond thehills I joined a boating party for an excursion to the opposite shores of Maryland,my Maryland. A delightful ride over a stretch of two miles of the still watersbrought us to the head of Broad Bay, where we landed, and then walked in thetwilight a short distance up the valley to an ancient chapel, erected in the time whenall the surr
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