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The facilities for improvement that are accessible
within the county are sea grass and oyster shell lime, both
found in great abundance and very cheap. It only requires
the same degree of skilled attention here in the cultivation of
the soil to make it as productive as any part of the shore,
and it would be attended with the increased advantage derived
from the superior mildness of tho climate and shortness of the
winters.

The price of land varies from five to one hundred dol-
lars per acre, and as a general thing is cheaper, when the cli-
mate, location, and all of its other advantages are considered,
than is found higher up the shore, and thus presents favora-
ble opportunities to settlers of cheap and remunerative invest-
ment—certainly very far superior to any place north or west
of our State.

The general character of its people as to hospitality and
refinement is well worthy of the high estimation in which
they are held wherever noble qualities are appreciated.

Its facilities for transportation are the Pocomoke River on
the east, the Nanticoke on the west, with the Sound on the
south, together with the Wicomico, Manokin, Monie, An-
namessex, and numerous other creeks and waters that penetrate
far into the interior of the county. The amount of land
transportation is very small, and that for the most part over
smooth, level roads.

The Delaware Railroad, moreover, runs entirely through
this county, passing through the town of Salisbury,
then through Princess Anne and finally ends on the navigable
waters of Pocomoke Sound at Annamessex. This gives abun-
dant means to reap all the advantages of the Philadelphia
and other northern markets in the sale of early fruits and
vegetables, which Is destined to become one of the chief occu-
pations of the inhabitants .of the county.

Its waters abound in all of the various shell and other fish,
with the wild fowl common to the Chesapeake. Rapid ad-
vance will soon take place in the value of lands here, and
those who first obtain them will be the most benefitted.

WORCESTER COUNTY.

This the most south-eastern county, is one of the largest
in territorial extent on the Eastern shore of Maryland. It
extends the whole breadth of the State, between Delaware,
its northern boundary, and Virginia, its boundary on the
south—its eastern limks extend to the Atlantic ocean, or
rather to Sinepuxet Bay, a narrow sound separated by a sandy
beach from the ocean. Its western boundary is the Pocomoke
River, Dividing Creek and at its north-western part an ar-
bitrary line which separates it from Somerset county.