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8995. WASHINGTON (City), Streets.—

I should propose the streets [of the Federal
capital] to be at right angles, as in Philadelphia,
and that no street be narrower than one hundred
feet with footways of fifteen feet. Where a
street is long and level, it might be one hundred
and twenty feet wide. I should prefer squares
of at least two hundred yards every way.—
Federal Capital Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 512. Ford ed., v, 253.
(1790)