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FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. PAGE.
The Young Surveyor's Dream--A Vision of the Future Capital--The United States Government on Wheels--Ambitious Offers--The Rival Rivers--Temporary Lodgings for Eleven Years--Old-Fashioned Simplicity--A Great Man's Modesty--Conflicting Claims--A Convincing Fact--The Dreadful Quakers--A Condescending Party--A Slight Amendment--An Old Bill Brought to Light Again--The Future Strangely Foreshadowed--A Dinner of Some Consequence--How it was Done--Really a Stranger--A Nice Proposal--Sweetening the Pill--A "Revulsion of Stomach," 21
CROSS PURPOSES AND QUEER SPECULATIONS.
Born of Much Bother--Undefined Apprehensions--Debates on the Coming City--Old World Examples--Sir James Expresses an Opinion--A Dream of the Distant West--An Old-time Want--A Curious Statement of Fact--Where is the Center of Population--An Important Proclamation--Original Land Owners--Well-worn Patents--Getting on with Pugnacious Planters--Obstinate David Burns--A "Widow's Mite" of Some Magnitude--How the Scotchman was Subjugated--A Rather "Forcible Argument," 31
THE WORK BEGUN IN EARNEST.
Washington's Faith in the Future--Mr. Sparks is "Inclined to Think"--A Slight Miscalculation--Theoretical Spartans--Clinging to Old World Glories--Jefferson Acts the Crit
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