The Montreal witness, 7 janvier 1863, mercredi 7 janvier 1863
[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XVIIL.: MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1863.No.2.[For the \u201c Wi:ness.\u201d JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.WANEISGTON.I wound op sight-seeing in Wesuingtou with 8 look at the \u201c National Monumest,\u201d or rather at that small portion of it that is completed.The aquare shaft of plain ma:ble is 70 feet in diameter at the base, and is tu be 600 feet high, \u2014tbougb not more tban one-tbird ia yet fiolkh- ed.At the base is to be Lailt a vast rotunda, witb statues, sculptures, and other embellishments ; but the work is at present entirely eus- pended, aud the workmen's buildings are occa- pied bv the commiseuriat of some portion of the army, fighting for the restoration of the Union that Washington inaugurated.In Washington I learnt what * olear, foggy weather\u201d meant.With a clear sky aud a bright sun, & deep haze would hang near the earth, through which the sunshine would all day seek to penetrate, but with little or no success.\u2014 They said such weather was not uncommon in Winter, aod 1 could well believe it, for it lasted all through my visit.On the afterncon of such a dey, having armed myself with a pase to carry me safely anywhere «of pickets,\u201d I start.od alone in a buggy to explore in Virginia.\u2014 \u2018There was no need to acl the way to the army.Up Pennsylvanian Avenue, and through Georgetown to the Aqueduc: Bridge, there comes and a stream of soldiers on foot, orderlies on forseback, and army waggons of all kinds acd sizes, telling of the thousands beyond whose \u201c base of supply\u201d is the City of Washington.\u2014 The bridge, of course, is guarded, and without à pass no one can cross, either by bridge or ferry, into Virginia.While crossing the bridge on the heig bts ia front, are seen the first of tbe celebrated defences which have been drawn around be city, and are said to bave made it impreguable.Lcoking at them with an uopro- fessional eye, 1 can give no judgment on this, but merely describe something of their appear- suce as [ saw them.On the 8.W.side of the Potomac, opposite and below the city, lies the elevated plateau called Arlington Heights.On this plateau has been formed a series of forts, à quarter to half a mile distant from each other, and 90 arranged that a crose-fire from three of these forts could be concentrated on any one spot at once.Between the forts, except where inequalitios of the ground rendered it unnecessary, rifle-pits have been dug,\u2014the whole forming a regular chaio across tbat portion of Vir- inia fronting on the District of Colombia.The Fru consist of earthwor
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