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Excerpt from A Guide to the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay and James River, and an Ocean Voyage to Northern Ports: A Series of Interesting and Instructive Excursions by Water From Washington While the banks of the James gave birth to the first English settlement on the continent of North America, the Potomac, the other great tributary of the Chesapeake, gave birth to the immortal Washington, the commander ih-chief of the armies of the Rebellion against a tyran nous king, and the first President of the United States of America. Here also repose the mortal remains of this great patriot. Near its shores also rest the ashes of Patrick Henry, whose fiery eloquence struck the key-note of hostility to the encroachments of kingly despotism of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence; of Peyton Randolph, President of the First Continental Congress of Edmund Randolph, the framer of the orig inal draft of the Constitution of the United States (1787) of Madison and Monroe and, to cap the climax of this remarkable chain of events, upon its shores stands the Capital of this nation of millions of human creatures who trace the foundations of the civil and religious liberty which they now enjoy back to the principles enun ciated and established by these heroic men, aided by their compeers of New England. The object of this little companion is to bring to his attention as he glides along over the watery way, in a sort of panoramic progression, everything of interest in his tory, art, and nature, feeling that in no way can the traveller more profitably add to the pleasures of his journey. 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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