Verty also was silent.
"All countries," said the poetical gentleman, with a preparatory flourish of his ruler, "have possessed localities famous in the history of literature:--as Athens, in Greece; the Island of Scio, where Homer first saw the light; and Stratford, where Shakspeare appeared.

Now, sir, reasoning from analogy, which is the finest possible way of reasoning, we must conclude that Virginia has such a locality, and I leave you to decide the probable situation of it.

It cannot be Williamsburg, the seat of government, for that place is given up to the vanity of life--to balls and horseraces, meetings of the House of Burgesses, and other varieties.

Williamsburg, sir, cannot become famous--it is too near the sea.

Then there is the thriving village of Richmond, to which they speak of moving the seat of government.