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The Western Division of the Tidewater Section
of Maryland.

This embraces the counties o.f Anne Arundel, Prince
George, Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's, and parts of Balti-
more and Harford counties.

This division is bounded on the north by the Washington
and Baltimore, and by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroads; on the east by the Chesapeake Bay, and
on the west by the Potomac river. The parts of Baltimore
and Harford counties lying northeast of Baltimore are nar-
row strips of those counties lying immediately on the Chesa-
peake Bay and the P. W. and B. railroad, and are not in-
cluded in the above boundaries.

The surface of the country is gently rolling, having neither
abrupt or broken hills nor any surface of level, flat land or
swamps. It-is well watered with many springs and streams
of the softest and best water.

It is well wooded.

IT IS AS HEALTHY as any part of the Union I have hereto-
fore known.

Is has on it many, very many locations equal in point of
health and very superior in beauty of scenery to the most
favored watering places in the United States, affording ample
facilities for saline bathing. The air, cooled by the breezes
from the Bay and Potomac,. diminishes very much the heat
of the summer, and checks the coldness of- the winter months.
Either beautiful inland or charming and romantic water
views constantly present themselves—very often there is a
combination of them—viewing the land from the water, or
the water from the land, scarcely any change could be sug-
gested, by the most cultivated taste, without marring the
beauty of the scenery. In most countries the facilities of
water navigation are counterbalanced by the disadvantages
of the level, flat and heavy surface of the surrounding coun-
try. Such is not the case here. The greatest convenience of
water navigation is combined with the most fertile soil and
the most beautiful sctnery. On all sides blessings have been
scattered with a "wasteful hand." No where are the same