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creeks with deep water, clear beeches and high banks. Many
of the dwellings or farm buildings lie immediately on these,
and farm products in many places may be taken from the
granary, placed immediately on the decks of steamboats and
in a few hours landed on the wharves of the great commercial
marts. The transportation is of the most perfect kind, by
means of the Choptank River and its numerous branches on
the one side, with Miles River, Wye River and the Eastern
Bay on the other. All of these are deep, navigable, salt,
tidal waters.

The internal resources of the county for agricultural im-
provement are of the first quality, not only as to their rich-
ness, but also their easiness of access and very general diffu-
sion. There are shell marls, sea grass and oyster shell lime, the
former found of exceeding richness in almost every section of
the county, particuiarly on the Choptank and the various
branches of the Tred Haven, and the latter obtained from all
of the waters of the county. With these, and ordinary farm
resources almost exclusively till late years, the lands of this
county have been made equal in production to many of the
best sections of the country. With proper additions they
will continue to exist equal to any in any section.

The unrivaled water communication will have added to it
facilities for speedy transit to Philadelphia and the North
by means of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, which
will in a short time be completed to Oxford, a fine, bold
harbor. It will traverse the county in a direction from north-
east to south-west, and make complete at all seasons, the
transportation facilities for this county.

The county is well watered with pure springs and running
streams, and is well timbered for all domestic purposes.

The land varies in price according to its degree of improve- .
ment, buildings on it and neighborhood; but everywhere can
be purchased cheaply, when its intrinsic value is considered.
The price of it varies from ten to one hundred and fifty dollars
per acre—though frequently the prices do not bear direct ra-
tio to its intrinsic excellence, land in particular neighborhoods
selling at higher rates than the same qality brings in other
places.

The. County town is Easton, pleasantly situated near the
centre of the county at the head of Tred Haven River, a mile
or two from Miles River, and a few miles from the Choptank,
by means of which it has daily communication with Bal-
timore; and direct communication with Philadelphia.

DORCHESTER COUNTY.

South of Talbot and the Choptank River is the county of
Dorchester, pronounced Dorset. It is bounded on the North