washington thought potomac was equal to dissent and the thames, the danube, the rhine altogether.it was like the potomac but it's hardly anyone of those. but the potomac connected the community next to it, the future capital city with the chesapeake which meant access to the atlantic where it was important for transportation and rudimentary communication and also the potomac flows westward. it will unite america, virginia, pennsylvania and the road rose to the edges of the tributaries would run west to what is today the ohio territory. pittsburgh, so forth and so on the potomac would then connect the american south as it was with distance between the two, it would serve to function, serve to unite the new capital city of the atlantic ocean and so on and so forth. that's washington's vision. next. in the constitution, over the debate over the capital city, article 1 section 8 it agreed that the capital city should be 10 miles square. it's 100 miles. what it means is this capital city almost laughably will be larger than paris, london, the great capitals of the world yet it would be built