Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Washington Through the Stereoscope: A Visit to Our National Capital
We have, in the second place, the remarkably ingen ious patent maps, which will be found inserted in a pocket in the back of the cover, by means of which one can obtain at a glance the point and the extent of vision in each stereograph, and with them the relation of each scene to every other one and to the whole city. The con stant use of these maps is a matter of cardinal import ance, for by it we are enabled to secure in each instance as vivid a sense of location as though we stood in reality on the spot.
In the third place, there is The Story of Washing ton, to be found in the first part of this book, in which effort is made to trace in a clear and entertaining way the rise of the city from a wilderness hamlet to one of the most beautiful capitals of the world.
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