ᏩᏏᏓᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ ᎠᎾᏁᏍᎨᏍᎬ, ᏌᏬᏚ ᎠᎼᏱ ᎨᏴ ᎾᎥ, ᎦᏲᏟᏉ ᎠᎹ ᎡᏉ ᎦᎸᎳᏗᏣ, ᎠᏰᎵᏋ ᎢᎬᏓ ᎦᏚᎲ ᏓᏓᏌᎳᏗᏍ, ᎦᏲᏟ ᏧᏗᎦᎴᏱᏛ ᏧᏔᏂᏛ ᏧᏂᎳᏫᎢᏍᏗ, ᎨᏍᏗ ᎠᏕᎶᎰᎯᏍᏗ ᏱᎨᏎ ᎢᏧᏅᏃᎰᏅᏱ ᎠᎴ ᏧᏲᏨ.
Washington city was being built on a landscape of utter insignificance, a mudflat by the river barely elevated above sea level, with a midsized southern town arising on it, with the distinguishing addition of a few scattered half-formed classical temples of enormous scale, in such a state of partiality that it was hard at first glance to tell whether they were falling or rising.