. Historic towns of the Southern States. and greatest export city, the impos-ing declivities of old Georgetown, at whose basewere once anchored merchant ships from foreignports, there passes before the mind a vivid pano-rama of the history of the American and majesty have obliterated the infantcity of a hundred years ago. The achievementsof science have mocked many of the ancientprophecies. The canal, starting at Georgetown,which was to have carried the deliberations ofCongress to the Western world, knows no suchuse, and the ships that were to crowd thePotomac are content to moor
. Historic towns of the Southern States. and greatest export city, the impos-ing declivities of old Georgetown, at whose basewere once anchored merchant ships from foreignports, there passes before the mind a vivid pano-rama of the history of the American and majesty have obliterated the infantcity of a hundred years ago. The achievementsof science have mocked many of the ancientprophecies. The canal, starting at Georgetown,which was to have carried the deliberations ofCongress to the Western world, knows no suchuse, and the ships that were to crowd thePotomac are content to moor at railway ter-mini along the Atlantic coast. But although applied science has confoundedthe wisdom of a hundred years ago, the hopesand dreams of the founder of the capital havebeen realized. In 1798, before the Govern-ment moved to the new city, Washingtonwrote concerning the capital: A century hence, if this country keepsunited, it will produce a city, though not solarge as London, yet of a magnitude inferiorto few others in WASHINGTON ACROSS THE FLATS. i=;o Washington Had Washington looked down the centuryand caught the gleam of the gigantic shaft thatattests his glory, and the golden dome of theCongressional Library, the most superb tem-ple ever reared to literature, or in an illuminedmoment beheld the Goddess of Liberty stand-ing between Heaven and earth and symboliz-ing freedom for seventy-five millions of people,he could not have written with loftier faith inthe destiny of the Republic. Washington is no longer the city of mag-nificent intentions ; it is Washington the Mag-nificent.
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