. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . VIEW ON STATE STREET, CHICAGO, LOOKING NORTHWARD, FROM MADISON STREET. 14* 214 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS. THE LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO. declared that the colonists would never give up, but if driven from the At-lantic seaboard, then, asserted the great commander, we will retire tothe valley of the Ohio, and there we will be free. Next morning they awoke in Maryland and the romance of miles the railroad cleft the lofty ridges, and, following the course of thetwisting Pot
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . VIEW ON STATE STREET, CHICAGO, LOOKING NORTHWARD, FROM MADISON STREET. 14* 214 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS. THE LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO. declared that the colonists would never give up, but if driven from the At-lantic seaboard, then, asserted the great commander, we will retire tothe valley of the Ohio, and there we will be free. Next morning they awoke in Maryland and the romance of miles the railroad cleft the lofty ridges, and, following the course of thetwisting Potomac, now beneath rocky heights, now along wooded slopes, andalways in sight of the flashing river, it bore them through a land as rich instudies for stories as were ever the Scottish Highlands, only awaiting theWalter Scott who will some day give its stirring romance to the world. Across the rushing river and through these broken hill-gaps, so UncleTom told his young people, twice did the South invade the North ; here,beside the Potomac, had young George Washington, as boy and man, passedand repassed as surveyor, as explorer, as envoy, as colonial major andcolonel, the chief instrument of Dinwiddie in his stri
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