IIAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. 37 In addition to the apartments of the Capitol already specified, it should be mentioned that there are also a large number of ordinary, but well furnished rooms, which are occupied by the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House, and other Officers, by the Postmasters of Congress, the Public Documents, and the Committees of the two Houses. In regard to the Capitol Grounds we have only to say, that they are not only extensive, but are kept in the very neatest order, constituting one of the very pleasantest and most popular resorts for promenading to be found in the Metropolis. They command most charming prospects of the surrounding country, are adorned with a great variety of American trees, fountains and basins of pure water enliven them in various parts, and an air of superior refinement is given to them, by a number of pieces of statuary, the most at tractive specimens being a statue of Washington, by Greenough, and the figures of Columbus and an Iudian Woman, by Persico, with his statues of Peace and War, the former occupying the centre of a square east of tho Capitol, and the others appropriate places on the eastern portico. On this side of the Capitol, moreover, is to be sce\i 4