Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . s,with a depth of six feet. On its course are seventy-five capaciouslocks, eleven aqueducts, and nearly two hundred culverts. Water issupplied to it from the Potomac by numerous dams. The canal wasfirst chartered in 1784, and constructed as far as the Great 1828 another charter was obtained from Congress, with the inten-tion of extending the course to> Pittsburg, a tot
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . s,with a depth of six feet. On its course are seventy-five capaciouslocks, eleven aqueducts, and nearly two hundred culverts. Water issupplied to it from the Potomac by numerous dams. The canal wasfirst chartered in 1784, and constructed as far as the Great 1828 another charter was obtained from Congress, with the inten-tion of extending the course to> Pittsburg, a total distance of threehundred and sixty miles. Work upon the extension was continueduntil 1841, when Cumberland was reached, and, for various reasons,it was made the terminus. The construction was exceedingly diffi-cult, and cost $13,000,000. Congress appropriated $1,000,000 forthe great enterprise, and Washington subscribed $1,000,000, Mary-land, $5,000,000, and Alexandria and Georgetown, $250,000 Georgetown a considerable part of the coal and produce re-ceived by the canal is shipped to Southern cities. At the Georgetown canal terminus is an aqueduct bridge, 1,446 THE NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY. 273. ALONG THE WHARVES AT GEORGETOWN. feet long, connecting with the Virginia shore, which carries the Alex-andria Canal across the Potomac. The bridge is constructed onhuge granite piers of sufficient strength to resist the shock of themasses of ice which come sweeping down the river in the earlyspring. The canal was incorporated in 1S30. Crossing the aqueduct bridge on to the soil of Virginia, a driveof a mile southerly will bring one to the National Military Cemeteryat Arlington—a vast field of the Nations dead. Here, under theshade of noble oaks, are buried 16,264 soldiers of the Rebellion,their last resting-place graciously cared for by the government theydied in defence of. The cemetery covers two hundred acres on Ar-lington Heights, which rise two hundred feet above t
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