WASHINGTON DESCRIBED. A COMPLETE VIEW OF THE AMERICAN CAPITAL, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; WITH MANY NOTICES, HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC, OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. EDITED BY WILLIAM D: HALEY. NEW YORK: RUDD & CARLETON. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, LEE & Co. 1861. BIBL. UNIV. GENT 1935 / R.433 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by JAMES PHILP, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, NEW YORK. CONTENTS. Page GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY. Topography. Captain John Smith's Account of Chesapeake Washington Navy Yard. United States Coast Survey. Na- tional Observatory. The Washington National Monu- ment. Smithsonian Institution. Washington Armory. United States Arsenal. Penitentiary of the District of Columbia. Military Asylum. Columbian Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. Government Hospital for the Insane. American Colonization Society. United States Agricultural Society. National Printing Office. Washington Art Association. The Equestrian Statue of |