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with the General ; which we did : and 

 the General gave me a most kind invita- 

 tion to go to see him in a few days. After 

 breakfast, he set off in his carriage for 

 Mount- Vernon. 



Mr. Law having speculated largely in 

 city lots (viz. of the intended new federal 

 city, as it was called, of Washington J, he 

 offered to let Colonel Lyles and me have 

 any lot we should choose, at the price it 

 cost him, and to leave the money on com- 

 mon interest for any time we should men- 

 tion. We looked out a lot, and made a 

 conditional bargain. I was to make an 

 estimate and plan ; which I did. But the 

 expences of building I found very high ; 

 nor did I like the appearance of the place at 

 alL I began to think that it was too young 

 a city for a brewery, there not being above 

 three hundred houses ; nor could I find 

 that there was another man of any consi- * 

 derable moneyed property in the city, besides 

 Mr. Law. I thought too that, water being 

 the usual drink of the country, there was 



