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Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in the distance, showing like a gem in its setting of river and cool embower-ing trees, but it was onlya glimpse of hidden beauties to be remembered and cherishedor forgotten. Now, by rapid and easy transit many pilgrims find their way thither,although it is but a private home. Little picnic parties from the cities adjacent, throughthe courtesy of the proprietor, hie there through the summer days to spread their repastsunder the shadowing boughs, and make merry on the inviting green sward. Artists 30 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS come to sketch the delightful and varied views of its environs, the cycler to wheel overthe smooth avenues, the angler to throw his line into the still river nooks, and thewearied, like myself, to seek the balm of rest. In this ideal home by the Potomac I found a welcome and a hospitality which re-called the many stories I had read, of entertainments in Virginia homes of the oldentime. For tired nature there was no lack of sweet restorers. There were libraries,
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inviting to every range and department of knowledge. There was music to sootheand harmonize, pictures, and cabinets of curios to amuse, and a wilderness of flowersto please the eye. All too swiftly passed the time, as I fondly tarried in the midst of so many allurementsfrom the dull and perplexing routine of business in the city. Hours of the bright mid-summer days I watched from the vine-hung verandas of the Old Mansion, the broad OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 31 rivers expanse before me, with its flitting shadows, its sails, and passing steamers.Sometimes it was a leisure stroll along the pebbly shore, or boating in the still watersthat beguiled me, and sometimes it was straying over the site of the old Indian town ofAssoameck, looking for arrow-heads, javelin points, fragments of pottery, and other re-mains of the ancient dwellers. One serene evening, as the parting rays of the setting sun were fading beyond thehills I joined a boating party for an excursion to the opposite shores of M

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