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terrapin, oyster, wild duck, geese and swan, furnish the-
most abundant supply of luxurious food.

The price of land in this county is at the present time very
low, whether we consider the capacity of production of the
improved lands, or the quickness and cheapness with which
the poor lands may be improved.

Lands of the same intrinsic value in a State North and
West of us sell for three or four times the amount that these
at present can be purchased for.

The price of the lands vary from five to sixty dollars
per acre, depending on buildings, location and other collat-
eral advantages.

The foregoing completes the description of the counties
forming the western part of the tide-water section of Mary-
land, and no more than justice has been done to their advan-
tages of soil, climate, facilities for transportation and re-
sources for improvement.

The Eastern Shore of Maryland.

This part of the tide-water division of Maryland actually
includes that, part of the State east of the Chesapeake bay
and south of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, and embraces all that part of Cecil county, south of
the above road, with the counties of Kent, Queen Anne,
Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester. Its
eastern boundary is Mason and Dixon's line, which separates
it from Delaware at its northern part, and the Atlantic
ocean at its south part in Worcester county The Chesapeake
bay bounds ft on the west, and it is bounded on the South
by a part of the State of Virginia and the waters of the
Chesapeake bay. Its length is about one hundred and twen-
ty-five miles and its average breadth about thirty miles.

A plain description of this section of the State is all that is
required to give full justice to its merits and place it in as
favorable a light before the world as its most enthusiastic ad-
mirers can desire.