... Besides this, it might have been added, that this seaport of Virginia, which has been wisely chosen as the Western depot and landing place of those foreign steam lines, is within an hour's sail of Chesapeake Bay , on which the Potomac, the Rappahannock, the York, and the James, ceaselessly pour their sweeping currents, and down which come vast treasures in the shape of the various productions of the rich vall...