Guide to Washington and Its Scientific Institutions
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Excerpt from Guide to Washington and Its Scientific Institutions: American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fortieth Meeting, August, 1891 The District of Columbia is the permanent seat of government of the United States, and Washington is the capital city within its bounds. Its exact site was chosen by President Washington in accordance with a resolution passed by Congress July lo, 1790, which specified that the location should be upon the banks of the Potomac river between certain limits. This choice was reached after a heated sectional contest, and conformed to the declaration that "the site of the future capital should be as near as possible the centre of wealth, of population, and of territory." The District was originally ten miles square; its centre was very near the spot occupied by the Washington Monument, and jurisdiction was ceded to the general government by the States of Maryland and Virginia. The boundaries of the District as originally defined are shown upon the accompanying geological map. When the site was chosen Georgetown had been a thriving trading point, with extensive foreign commerce, for nearly a hundred years, and Alexandria was also a prominent settlement, but the ground occupied by the present City of Washington was for the most part unimproved. The City of Washington. The ground plan of the capital is the work of Major L´Enfant, a young French engineer residing in Philadelphia, chosen by Washington for this purpose. The plan was made after a careful study of the physiography of the District, and shows a wonderful appreciation of the requirements of the capital of a great nation. The Capitol is the centre of this plan. The north and south and east and west lines passing through that building divide the city into four quarters. Either side from the meridian line the streets are numbered: First street. Second street, etc. Each way from the east-west line the streets are named in order from the alphabet: A street, B street, etc. Besides the lettered and numbered streets there are many avenues, named after states of the Union. These avenues run in directions diagonal to the streets and are so arranged that several of them intersect at certain important points - as at the White House and at the Capitol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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