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ing influences of the past few years, have maintained the
high agricultural character of the county.

Lands are here sold very cheap, and from their numerous
advantages present excellent opportunities to all who may
wish to cultivate the soil with profit and pleasure.

Live stock of the best varieties flourish well here and are

cheaply raised; the waters which surround it furnish inex-
haustable quantities of wild fowl, fish and oysters, not only
for home consumption but for exportation. Its soil and cli-
mate is well adapted to fruits, which have become a prime
article of cultivation, and found to be highly remunerative.

The advantages of transportation are fully equal to all the
present wants of production. The Chester river and the Ches-
apeake Bay, which nearly surrounds it on two sides, and the
Wye river its Southern boundary give all the advantages of
the cheapest and readiest transportation to all the markets of
the country. A Railroad branching from the Delaware Road
is proposed to be run to Queenstown, on the Chesapeake,
which when completed will leave nothing to be desired either
for internal or foreign transportation.

The face of the country is gently rolling, with beautiful
sites for building on the water courses or in the interior; the
shores of the rivers are of clean, compact sand, the water bold
and deep to the shore, but little drainage required, and
that little easily accomplished. The county abounds in varied
deposits of good shell marl, by the application of which its
soil of late years has been very highly improved at very little

expense.

All that is wanting to create a desire for the lands of this
county is a proper knowledge of thier extensive natural advan-
tages of every desuription.

The price of land varies from its location, degree of im-
provement and convenience to navigable water, but much of
every variety can be purchased at very cheap rates. It now
sells at from ten to one hundred and twenty-five dollars per
acre. All sales of it hitherto made have been much below
its intrinsic value.

To a late citizen of this county, distinguished alike for pri-
vate virtues and public services, is due much of the progress
made in the improvement of the soil by means of the applica-
tion of shell marl and other native manures. Careful exper-
iments proved the efficacy of the marl, and the results pub-
lished in a style of finished scholarship aided by the weight of
high public reputation, added greatly to the general use of
this valuable fertilizer. The spirit of agricultural improve-
ment has long prevailed in this county, and many of the

chief measures for the advancement of the science and benefit
of the practice of Agriculture has either emanated from, or
received most effective aid from the present representative in