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Excerpt from The District in the Xviiith Century: History, Site-Strategy, Real Estate Market, Landscape, &C, as Described by the Earliest Travellers
Page Sixaccount there is no factor of the matter overlooked. Wan sey enters in his pocket book what he has been told at a coffee-house, Washington being merely hearsay at that time. In the description of John Davis there is a trace of the irre sponsibility of copy-making, but the record is not without its value covering as it does the formal establishment, and the appearance of Thomas Jefferson on horseback.
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