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vania, falls into the head of the bay at Havre de Grace. The
rivers on the Eastern Shore are numerous and chiefly tidal.
The Sassafras, Chester, Choptank, Nanticoke and Pocomoke
are navigable for many miles. Numerous water courses fur-
nish a power for working mills superior to that of any other
State of equal area. In all the tide-water districts the farmer
has seldom to carry his produce more than five miles to a con-
venient landing.

CANALS.

The Susquehanna and Tide-Water Canal, from Havre de
Grace to Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, is 45 miles long; the
Chesapeake and Ohio from Georgetown, D. C., to Cumber-
land, 185 miles; the Chesapeake and Delaware, 13 miles.

RAILROADS.

The Baltimore and Ohio, from Baltimore to Wheeling, Va.,
380 miles; the Washington Branch of same, from Baltimore
to Washington, 40 miles; Northern Central, from Balti-
more, through Maryland, 40 miles; the Western Maryland,
50 miles; the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore,
through Maryland, 56 miles; the Franklin, from Hagers-
town to Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania, and the George's
Creek Coal and Iron Company's road, in Allegany county,
69 miles; the Washington county Railroad, to connect Ha-
gerstown with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Weaver-
ton, 25 miles; and the Washington and Point Lookout Rail-
road, through the counties of Prince George's, Charles and
St. Mary's counties, are projected and will be completed at
an early day. An extension of the Maryland and Delaware
Railroad is also being made, and is nearly completed, from
Salisbury in Summers Cove, on the bay, when it is designed
to run a line of three first-class steamers between that point
and the city of Norfolk, Va.

There are also many excellent turnpike and other roads
throughout the entire State.

THE CLIMATE

Is temperate, and the extremes of heat or cold are rarely
suffered, and then for no great length of time. The rigors
of winter are mitigated by its contiguity to the ocean, while
the heated term is mitigated by an occasional trip to the
mountains, or a sail upon the broad waters of the Chesa-
peake. The subjoined table exhibits the current weather for
the year 1864 :