Excerpt from Historic Sketches at Washington: Containing a Full Record of the Origin and Early History of Washington City and Its Founders, Together With a Detailed Account of Its Growth, Its Public Buildings, the Style and Extravagance of Living There, and a Description of the Inside Working of The Was it a job or a compromise - Had Gen. Washington interested motives in locating it -the land owners and their wrangles - Con gress driven out of Philadelphia - The manner of buying the ground - Capital moving - Reminiscences of the site - Character of the early population - Washington rides out with the commissioners - His Inor tifications - What the town has cost the Government - Condition of civilization when the city was founded. 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.