A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . Interior of the Home of Representatives. The treasury, navy, war, and land offices are all in the vicinity of the ?residents house; as, also, are the residences of the foreign ministers,he patent office is in the same building with the general post office, and.
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . Interior of the Home of Representatives. The treasury, navy, war, and land offices are all in the vicinity of the ?residents house; as, also, are the residences of the foreign ministers,he patent office is in the same building with the general post office, and. Department of State. contains numerous models of inventions, in all branches t)f art. Thereare more than three thousand dwellings in Washington, and the populationis estimated at about nineteen thousand five hundred.* * A recent traveller, who entertains no great partiality for the institutions of ourcountry, but whose volume is well written, and entertaining, makes the following obser-vations on the society of our metropolis: Washington is, undoubtedly, the gayest place in the union ; and must, I shouldimagine, be the very paradise of hackney coachmen. If these gentlemen do not get 336 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. Waterville, a town of Kennebec county, Maine, on the west side of theriver Kennebec, eighteen miles north by east of Augusta. The principalvillage stands at the head of boat navigation, and its trade is °Wesleyan seminary is established here; in this institution, the stu-dents contribute to their support by manual labor. Population, two thou-sand two hundred a
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