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| | Journal of a voyage across the Atlantic: a machine-readable transcription. |
 | | The President's house is in the western part of the city; and stands on a plot of twenty acres, forty-four feet above the Potomac. |
 | | It is overpowering to think that the outpourings of lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, Michigan, and St. Clare, covering a surface of 150,000 square miles, all roll down this 157 feet fall, with, it is said, sixteen times the power, deducting one-third for waste, of all the water-power used in Great Britain. |
 | | There is the House of Industry for old, helpless paupers: these words are painted on the walls—“Self-government, quietude, and peace are blessings.” This was a clean, neat place, with a plant or two on the window-sill, a row of crockery upon the shelf, or small display of coloured prints upon the whitewashed wall. |
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