Replying to a message of Daryl Stout to Bob Ackley:

 DS> Bob...

 DD>> The capitol jumped around until settling in the swamp land that
 DD>> became Washington, D.C.

 BA>> It's still a swamp, although I prefer 'cesspool.'

 DS>   When I went through Washington, DC on Amtrak in a "memorial trip"
 DS> for my late wife...first for her funeral in Florida (where her
 DS> parents live), and a return trip within the last 2 years...as the
 DS> train pulled out of Washington, the Conductor quipped "if you don't
 DS> inhale too deeply, you won't gag from the stench of
Washington". 

I was stationed at Fort Meade (between Baltimore and DC) for a year in 1963-4.  I
saw all I ever want to see of DC.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+