William Guiran Esquine

from his friend

B.15..

DESCRIPTION

OF THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CHOROGRAPHICAL

AND

STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION

OF THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

THE SEAT OF THE GENERAL

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

WITH AN ENGRAVED PLAN OF THE DISTRICT, AND VIEW

OF THE CAPITOL.

Qui manet in Patriâ, et Patriam cognoscere temnit,
Is mihi non civis, sed peregrinus erit.

PARIS:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY SMITH, RUE MONTMORENCY.

To be had also of T. BARROIS, Foreign Bookseller, No. 11, Quai
Voltaire, and DELAUNAY, Bookseller, in the Palais-Royal.

1816.

233. f. 77.

DEDICATION

то

MRS. CUSTIS.

MADAM,

IT may not have escaped your recollection, that you kindly honoured me with your advice to occupy my leisure hours, at Washington, in examining the interesting objects of that magnificent situation. You were even pleased to accompany me in some of my excursions, and to honour me by an introduction to your relations and friends, to whom I feel grateful for valuable and unwearied attentions.