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86 HAND-HOOK OF WASHINGTON. enlightened communities, are directed by the simple precepts of good breeding. THE MARKETS OF WASHINGTON. From hotels the transition to the markets of the town is natural. Of market houses there are four, but the largest and most important is Centre market on Pennsylvania Avenue. In describing this, we describe them all. A greater variety of good things can no where be found collected un der one roof, than may at all times be found in Centre market. The highlands of Maryland and Virginia supply it with beef and mutton, that cannot be excelled, while the adjoining country pours into it a variety of vegetables that makes one wonder where they all come from. In the way of fish, the Potomac yields a great variety, the shad, rock fish or basse and the oysters, hav ing no superior in the country:—and no market is better supplied with venison, wild turkey, orto- lon, reed-birds and the famous canvas back ducks. And then again, although the Centre market building is by no means a classical one, yet no market in this land has been frequented by so many illustrious men,—such men for example as