But it remained for George Washington, the Virginia planter, to
catch, in something of its actual grandeur, the vision of a
Republic stretching towards the setting sun, bound and unified by
paths of inland commerce
But it remained for George Washington, the Virginia planter, to
catch, in something of its actual grandeur, the vision of a
Republic stretching towards the setting sun, bound and unified by
paths of inland commerce. It was Washington who traversed the
long ranges of the Alleghanies, slept in the snows of Deer Park
with no covering but his greatcoat, inquired eagerly of trapper
and trader and herder concerning the courses of the Cheat, the
Monongahela, and the Little Kanawha, and who drew from these
personal explorations a clear and accurate picture of the future
trade routes by which the country could be economically,
socially, and nationally united.
