be in accord with the history of the Na- tional Capital as we have heretofore read it. After reciting that the site had been chosen by Washington in 1791, the au- thor proceeds as follows: "Meanwhile Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant had been chosen by Washington to draw the plan of 'the new Federal town

Surveyor of the Capital of Our Nation By M. LUTHER HEISEY Surveyor of the Capital, Washington, D. C., February, 1791 to July, 1793, A resident of Lancaster, Pa., from October, 1801 to November, 1813. "To this place [Lancaster] I feel more attached than to any other."—A. E. Secretary of the Land