What to see in America . Bay near at hand,is the capital ofthe state. Theseat of govern-ment was movedthither from in the co-lonial period itwas one of themost importantsocial centers,and ranked withNew York, Philadelphia, and Charleston in its display ofwealth and fashion. Dinners, parties, and balls were numer-ous, and card playing, gambling, horse racing, cockfight-ing, and dueling were indulged in with fervor. Here is theUnited States Naval Academy, opened in 1845, and here,on the grounds of St. Johns College, is the famous Treeof Liberty — a very old tulip tree with a
What to see in America . Bay near at hand,is the capital ofthe state. Theseat of govern-ment was movedthither from in the co-lonial period itwas one of themost importantsocial centers,and ranked withNew York, Philadelphia, and Charleston in its display ofwealth and fashion. Dinners, parties, and balls were numer-ous, and card playing, gambling, horse racing, cockfight-ing, and dueling were indulged in with fervor. Here is theUnited States Naval Academy, opened in 1845, and here,on the grounds of St. Johns College, is the famous Treeof Liberty — a very old tulip tree with a girth of thirtyfeet. Beneath this trees spreading branches the early set-tlers, who built their first huts here in 1649, made a treatywith the Indians. Annapolis still retains much of its old-time appearance, and the traveler finds delight in the quietstreets, where low and broad houses of red brick, that havewhite facings and columned porticos wreathed with creep-ers, stand in gardens of blooming flowers and The Burnside Bridge, Antietam liAiiLEFiELD Maryland 137 One of the most attractive features of the Potomac isthe Great Falls, fifteen miles above Washington. The riverchannel here is a chaos of jagged ledges amid which thestream has worn various tortuous channels, and the watersurges down through the rocks in a smother of white waves,and then makes a sudden leap to a lower level. The rapidsbelow the falls are a favorite spring resort of shad fishermen,who dip out the fish with scoop nets. The water supply forWashington comes from above the falls, and a half dozenmiles downstream is carried across Cabin John Creek by anaqueduct bridge which, with one exception, is the longeststone arch bridge in the world. Jefferson Davis was Secre-tary of War when the bridge was built, and his name wascut into one of the stones. After he became president of theConfederacy his name was chiseled oflF, but many yearslater it was restored by order of President Roosevelt. Toward the
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