HAND-BOOK OP WASHINGTON. 127 Church of which he was a Vestryman, to the pew which customarily occupied, and many striking memorials of his life arc preserved with care. It is also supplied with the somewhat peculiar attraction for a southern City, of a Museum. It comprises many personal relics of General Wash ington, and also a large and valvable collection of specimens in Natural History. Its other attrac tions arc interesting but not especially peculiar. The town was originally called Belhavcn, and is very handsomely situated in the bottom of a valley. The streets are laid out on the plan of Philadelphia, crossing each other at right angles. In making an observation from the town, the eye of an observer is terminated in every direc tion by lofty and verdant hills, to the north ho secs the city of Washington, the Capitol with its beautiful columns, white walls and towering dome forming a most conspicuous object; to the south the broad and majestic expanse of the Potomac opens upon him, with Fort Washington in the distance, conrpiring to render a visit to this ancient city a very agreeable one to the so journer in Washington.