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whom "excessive mortality prevails," it must be freely
acknowledged as it is clearly proven, that Maryland in point
of health is equal if not superior to any part of the United
States. To this conclusion, an acquaintance with her soil,
her climate, her varied productions of land and water would
lead us, if the census report and the peculiar facts known to
exist solely in relation to our State, did not prove it as thorough-
ly as such things can prove anything.

I have now fairly and without exaggeration presented the
social advantages of Maryland, the superiority of its climate
and I think it may be said, with due consideration, its un-
equalled health; either of these seperately, if well known,
should induce numbers to seek homes in our State, for after all
it is the enjoyments which these afford, that is the end of the
toil, labor and striving in which the world is engaged. The
material advantages of Maryland in its easily worked and
easily improved soil, the number and variety of its produc-
tions, both animal and vegetable, the unequalled resources,
the world over, of a supply of food and luxuries furnished by
its bay and its tributaries, such as fish, oysters, terrapins,
wild fowl of the finest varieties in the world, all in the greatest
abundance and of the easiest access, its location in reference
to the great marts of commerce and the political capital of
the country; its timber, its easy access to coal, and immense
and widely diffused water power; its material for building
in the form of stone and marble of various kinds and great
excellence, of the best brick clay for building purposes in the
country; of the number variety and excellence of its fruits and
flowers, each worthy of a seperate chapter, and each alone
offering to a particular class inducements for the investment
of labor and capital, should induce with its other advantages a
very general desire for investment in its lands. And I am sure
that when the above advantages are properly weighed and
appreciated that such investments when made never will be
regretted by those who may make them, nor their descendants
for centuries to come.

All and every valuable crop that can be grown North or
West of us succeeds equally well in Maryland and many of
them in far greater perfection than in those places. Fruits
and garden vegetables of every description too, are much ear-
lier in the season here, and arrive at far greater perfection
than can be found in the Northern or Western States, and in
the tide water parts of the State, fruits and flowers succeed in
the open air, which to be north of us require hot house culture
amongst these stand prominently figs and pomegranates.

The Tide Water section which at this time, I shall par-
ticularly describe, comprises all that part of Maryland, lying
east of the Chesapeake bay, "the Eastern Shore," except a
Western part of Cecil county, parts of Harford and Baltimore
counties, and the whole of Anne Aritndel, Prince George,
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