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cuss the situation with the Dominion Government. 

 The next day Beauclerk and I took a long *' con- 

 stitutional " of some nine miles over the Arlington 

 heights, littered with the graves of those who fell 

 in the Civil War. 



On the 1 2th, at Mr. Bayard's invitation, we went 

 down to the navy yard, and boarded a Government 

 despatch boat which conveyed a party of about 100 

 some seventeen miles down the Potomac to see the 

 tomb and residence of George Washington at Mount 

 Vernon. I give a reproduction of a photograph 

 taken in front of that historical house on that day. 

 The Chief in a light shooting-suit figures in the 

 centre of the group, and Miss Endicott, carrying a 

 white shawl, is the second lady on his right. Mr. 

 Bayard's tall figure, carrying his hat in his hand, is 

 readily recognisable on the right of the picture. I 

 am the last but one on the left. Every good 

 American citizen who has had the chance has of 

 course visited Mount Vernon. It is to them what 

 Mecca and Medina are to Mohammedan pilgrims. 

 But a brief description of it may interest some 

 English readers who have not penetrated so far. 



The Mansion House is situated on a bluff some 

 200 feet above the level of the Potomac, which is 

 there about two miles wide. It is a wooden struc- 



