HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. 9 the Eastern Branch with the Potomac, and was known as .Tames Creek. There is a stream above Georgetown which has always been called Goose Creek; hut, from a certificate of a survey now preserved in the mayor’s office, at Washington, dated 1663, it appears that the inlet from the Potomac was then known by the name of Tiber, and probably the stream from the north emptying into it bore the same name; so that Moore did injustice to the history of the place, and confound ed streams, when he wrote the well-known line; “And what was Goose Creek once, is Tiber now.” By the same survey, it appears that the land, comprising Capitol Hill, was called Rome, or Room, two names which seemed to have fore shadowed the destiny of the place. Mr. Force, of Washington, suggests that they probably origi nated in the fact that the name of the owner of the estate was Pope, and, in selecting a name for his plantation, he fancied the title of “Pope of Rome.”* The Commissioners reported that the public buildings would be ready for the reception of the government in the summer of 1800. Accord- * Joseph B. Yarnum.