, who is entitled to equal honor in surveying and plotting the National capital, and that man was Andrew Ellicott. He was born in Bucks county, this State, on January 24, 1754, and died at West Point, New York. on August 29, 1820. I shall present briefly the most salient points in his career, and show

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