. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. hsonian, the low breadth of the National Museum, the redshapeless pile of the Army Medical Museum, and thesmall Fisheries Building, leading the eye as far as 6th St.,beyond which are open parks. This leads the eye to thebroad current of the Anacostia, which can be overlooked asfar up as the Navy Yard, and downward to where it joins thePotomac at Greenleafs Point. The miHtary barracks therecan be seen, and on this side of it, along the harbor branch ofthe Potomac, are the steamboat wharves. The view southward is straight down the Potoma
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. hsonian, the low breadth of the National Museum, the redshapeless pile of the Army Medical Museum, and thesmall Fisheries Building, leading the eye as far as 6th St.,beyond which are open parks. This leads the eye to thebroad current of the Anacostia, which can be overlooked asfar up as the Navy Yard, and downward to where it joins thePotomac at Greenleafs Point. The miHtary barracks therecan be seen, and on this side of it, along the harbor branch ofthe Potomac, are the steamboat wharves. The view southward is straight down the Potomac, farbeyond the spires of Alexandria, 6 miles in an air line, to whereit bends out of view around Cedar Point. The new steelbridge, which replaced Long Bridge, is in the immediateforeground, and the railways leading to it can be traced. Tothe right, the eyes sweep over a wide area of the red Virginiahills thickly crowned during the Civil War with fortifications,the sites of some of which may be discovered by the knowing, RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE 55. Arlington MansionPage 58 and coverthe disast-rous fieldsof Manas-sas off tothe righton the levelblue hori-zon. The west-ern viewcontinuesthis land-scape ofVirginia,and incl-udes about3 miles of the Poto-mac above Long Bridge. Close beneath the eye are the oldand scattered houses of the southwest quarter, with the VanNess homestead, and the hill crowned by the old Naval Observ-atory on ground where Washington meant to place his nationaluniversity. Above that the current of the river is broken byAnalostan, or Masons Island, opposite the mouth of RockCreek, beyond which are the crowded, hilly streets of George-town, and the Acqueduct Bridge, leading to Rosslyn, on thesouthern bank. Beyond, over the city of Georgetown, are thebeautiful wooded heights above Woodley, where PresidentCleveland had his summer home, and thousands of charmingsuburban houses are building. On the Virginia side of the riverthe Arlington mansion appears, som
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