Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The United States Magazine, Vol. 3: July to December, 1856
Perhaps he stood, where we did when our artist sketched the bird's eye view at the head of this article, near Arlington House, the present resi dence of that venerated sage, George Washing ton Parke Custis, and there behold the peculiar fitness of the place, and how nature had made it for its future use; and knowing, as he must have known, that his name and fame were clothed with immortality, he may have seen pictured on the still air the plinth and shaft, erected by a grateful and admiring posterity to his memory, pierce the concave. 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.
