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The land which will be awarded, is about two miles 

 from the Potomac, in Virginia, and five miles from this 

 city. It is now worth near 500 dollars, and from its 

 situation is fast improving, with the towns of the neigh- 

 bourhood. But it is presumed the present value will 

 not prove so strong a stimulus to exertion, as the re- 

 ceiving property on such honourable terms, near a 

 place, destined to be the punctum saliens of the scien- 

 ces, as well as the government of the nation. 



Thomas Ewri.l. 

 Washington, 15th June, 1807. 



