. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . better than by doing it in one longvisitation, as we see so many tourists doing it, with redguide-books in their hands, or bulging from their pockets.(I must conscientiously confess, in parenthesis, that we our-selves also carry a Guide to Washington^ and, during the in-spection of the Capitol, are apt to refer to it pretty often.)In the endeavour to take it all in on one day, the eye gets sur-feited with pictures and statues, mouldings and frescoes;the soul sickens at the further contemplation of busts andbas-reliefs,
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . better than by doing it in one longvisitation, as we see so many tourists doing it, with redguide-books in their hands, or bulging from their pockets.(I must conscientiously confess, in parenthesis, that we our-selves also carry a Guide to Washington^ and, during the in-spection of the Capitol, are apt to refer to it pretty often.)In the endeavour to take it all in on one day, the eye gets sur-feited with pictures and statues, mouldings and frescoes;the soul sickens at the further contemplation of busts andbas-reliefs, bronze-panellings and marble pillars ; Pocahontasand Washington dance together dizzily in the confusedbrain; and Presidents and Puritan Fathers, William Pennand Miles Standish, allegorical figures of Freedom andVictory, the Declaration of Independence, the Landing ofColumbus and the Sword of Bunkers Hill all mingle in a |kaleidoscopic jumble in the wearied mind. In the afternoon, we take a carriage to Arlington, abeautiful drive of only about four miles. All the way the. ARLINGTON 15 great white dome of the Capitol dominates the the Potomac, from Arlington Heights, beyond river,wood, winding road and city, we see it soaring into the in-tense blue of the sky like an Alpine peak. The Arlington Mansion was built by George Washing-ton Parke Custis (grandson of Martha and adopted son ofGeorge Washington). His daughter married Robert , and here the Lees kept hospitable house and happyhome until the disastrous days of war. During the longstruggle the estate was confiscated, and, having been em-ployed as headquarters for the Federal troops, was eventuallyturned into a •• national cemetery, where over fifteenthousand soldiers lie buried. The beautiful park-like grounds are now a field of the the hillside by thousands and tens of thousands, stretchthe long regular serried lines of tombstones. Here, line byline, in rank and file, at peace beyond the battl
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