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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 97



12. [Alfred J. Morrison, (ed.)], The District in the XVIIIth Century: History, Site-Strategy, Real Estate Market, Landscape, &c. as Described by the Earliest Travellers: Henry Wansey, Francis Baily, Isaac Weld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, John Davis of Salisbury ([Washington, DC?]: Judd & Detweiler, 1909). (53 p.)


Description of the District of Columbia by visitors in the 1700s. There are five descriptions with an appendix consisting of biographical sketches of the writers.