In re http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2013/kari223.htm, Washington DC is small and you can see it on http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl . There aren't 7 mountains that surround it and places like "Forest Hills" are just names , and many such names have no real "hill" associated with them. the people who named DC simply like the idea of "hills" and use the term "hill(s)" or "highlands" in many, if not potentially a majority of their subdivision names.
- Floral Hills is the name of a cemetary, not an actual hill.
- Meridian Hill is the name of a park, not an actual hill, and it is also the name of a subdivision in DC as well. Check out their link at http://www.meridianhilldc.org/
- Forest Hills, Knox Hill, Hillcrest and Hillbrook are names of subdivisions, not names of actual hills.
Trying to list these subdivisions with "hill" in them to "prove" that Washington DC has 7 hills is silly, and if you allow the logic, you have WAY MORE THAN 7 "hills". There are at least 8 sub-divisions with "hill" in the name, maybe more, I probably didn't find them all. And Forest Hills and Floral Hills are PLURAL, indicating more than one hill.
Here's some other subdivsions in Washington DC
- Prospect Hill
- Bruce Hill
- Cottage Hill (That's EIGHT subdivisions with "hill" in the name)
- Mount Pleasant
- Mount Pleasant Heights and various other Mount Pleasant derivatives.
- Randle Highlands
- Highview
- Avalon Heights
- Belair Heights
- Central Heights
- Columbia Heights
- Congress Heights
- Deanwood Heights
- East Washington Heights
- Fairmont Heights
- Fairview Heights
- Fernwood Heights
- Fourteenth Street Heights
- Garfield Heights
- Kalorama Heights
- Lanier Heights
- Manning Heights
- North Columbia Heights
- Saratoga Heights
- Tunlaw Heights
- University Heights
- Washington Heights
- Wesley Heights
- Winthrop Heights
Washington simply does not sit on 7 hills, and the statue of liberty is not in DC. It is on Ellis Island, which does not have 7 hills either.
Rome is not the only city that could be described as sitting on 7 hills. There are others. But Washington DC is not one of them, and Rome is the only one famously known as the "City of 7 Hills" and Washington DC is not the city on 7 hills that Revelation is talking about.
Shalom, Joe