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These lands require now, and will not require for a century,
but a small quantity of foreign manure (if the domestic ma-
nures are properly husbanded,) and to purchase and use of
these will involve but slight expense, with certain and direct
remuneration.

There are no lands for sale in this or any other country,
that combine so many of the moral and material advantages
as these lands : Health, convenience to market, and a choice
of the best in the country—easy and cheap cultivation, easy,
cheap and certain transportation—the choice, in many instan-
ces, of Railroad or water transportation—their proximity to
the great southern emporium of trade, (Baltimore,) and daily,
in many cases almost hourly communication with the Nation-
al Capital—these, with a highly-cultivated and refined resi-
dent population present a combination of advantages not to
be found elsewhere in the United States. The whole Union
cannot present its counterpart. On these lands the man of
wealth, of enterprise, of taste, of leisure, can enjoy the one
or gratify the other to an extent nowhere else practicable in
this country. Here are wide fields for the employment of
capital with profit, combined with all the natural gifts to
make,a home, a "Home, sweet Home."

TABLE LAND SOILS.

These are a distinct class of soils, occupying the summit
level in the interior of the counties of Prince George, Charles,
St. Mary's, and to a small extent in Calvert counties. They
lie, for the most part,, at the head of the streams which empty
into the Potomac and Patuxent rivers, and are more level and
flat than the soils before described which are contiguous to
them; they are by no means so productive, they are, however,
well wooded and watered. Their physical texture is close,
compact and retentive of water—this, by proper cultivation
and manuring can be readily and cheaply" improved, whilst
the nutrient substances in them can be very easily and cheaply
supplied. They sell at a price much below their real value,
and from their cheapness and contiguity to market are very
desirable for investment. They have been but little improved
as a general thing, but where these have been made, ample
returns for all outlay of capital and labor has been the direct
result. They lie immediately adjacent to the lands which
have just been described, and the advantages to a population
of small means, of such contiguity can at once be recognized.
They cannot fail to become fertile, valuable and the residence
of a numerous population if properly managed. They can
be purchased at cheap rates in large tracts, and thus offer
good inducement for the investment of capital, with certain,
speedy and permanent returns.