. The new eclectic history of the United States . endly settle-ment with the United States. 346. Death of Washington,—Scarcely-had Washington retired to his home,in good hope of a peaceful old age,when a sudden illness of two daysended his grand and useful life. The whole countrymourned him as a father, and those who had beenhis opponents were most sincere in doing him honor. TheBritish fleet lowered all its flags at receiving news of his death,and Bonaparte, in announcing the event to the French armies,ordered that tokens of mourning should drape all the standardsin the public service for ten
. The new eclectic history of the United States . endly settle-ment with the United States. 346. Death of Washington,—Scarcely-had Washington retired to his home,in good hope of a peaceful old age,when a sudden illness of two daysended his grand and useful life. The whole countrymourned him as a father, and those who had beenhis opponents were most sincere in doing him honor. TheBritish fleet lowered all its flags at receiving news of his death,and Bonaparte, in announcing the event to the French armies,ordered that tokens of mourning should drape all the standardsin the public service for ten days. 347. The City of Washington.—The next summer, 1800, thegovernment was removed to its palace in the wilderness, onthe banks of the Potomac. There was little yet to indicatethat a beautiful and stately city was to occupy the site chosenby Washington. Mrs. Adams,3 the Presidents wife, on herjourney from Baltimore to her new home, was actually lost inthe woods, ami, with her escort, wandered two hours without DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES. 209. Mrs. Adams Lost in the Woods. finding a guide or path. Sheadds, But woods are all yousee from Baltimore until youreach this city, which is soonly in name. 348. The rich resources of thecountry were scarcely yetdreamed of. Anthracite coalhad been discovered in Penn-sylvania, but its value was solittle understood that it wasused for mending roads. Cot-ton had been introduced intoGeorgia in 1786, and thesoutheastern States were foundto contain the finest cottonlands in the world; but the separation of a single pound ofcotton from its seeds required a whole day, and the wovenfabric was more costly than linen. In 1793 Eli Whitney, ofMassachusetts, while visiting in Georgia, invented a cotton-ginwhich could do the work of hundreds of men in clearing thefiber from the seed. Arkwright, in England, had already per-fected his machine for spinning cotton, and James Watt hissteam-engine. These three inventions revolutionized the manu-factures of E
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