Excerpt from Reminiscences of the District of Columbia, or Washington City Seventy-Nine Years Ago, 1830-1909I don't suppose Alexandria has changed much - only faces and persons; neither Georgetown, with its hills and hollows; for neither place was trying to be first in anything, only in old families and residences, and they were many. Washington was always famous for trying to be in the swim and oft-en times in the scum as well, and from what I hear of it, in my home in the W est, it is still as eager for notoriety as in the days of long ago.Hoping this little volume may find favor in your eyes, and replenish the exchequer of which just now I am greatly in need, I remain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.