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It is highly favored in its means of tronsportation. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal passes through the whole extent
of its southern border, giving all necessary transportation to
this section of the county and full intercourse with the Coal
fields in Allegheny county. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road passes through its south-eastern border at the foot of
Pleasant Valley. From Hagerstown, the county town, an
excellent Railroad, the Franklin Railroad, connects with the
road that passes through the Cumberland Valley to Harris-
burg, and there connects with the Pennsylvania Central and
the Northern Central Railroad. A road is in progress called
the Washington County Railroad, which will connect the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Weaverton with the Frank-
lin Railroad at Hagerstown, and the Western Maryland Rail-
road will soon be finished to Hagerstown, giving it a quick
connection with Baltimore on the east, and supplying much
needed facilities to a large part of the county.

It will be seen from the above that Hagerstown will soon
be the point from which will diverge three Railroads, all go-
ing, by most direct routes, to the great centres of commerce
of the Union, all passing through very fertile and highly
cultivated sections of this county.

In turnpike roads this county is better provided than any
otherjn the State. Some of its far-sighted and enterprising
citizens having, a few years since, inaugurated a system which
not only has given the county most admirable roads where
they were most needed, but also has resulted inbringing from
their tolls, large revenues into the county treasury. An ex-
ample that could, and should be followed in every county in
the State.

In each of the three last named counties there exists the
numerous descendants of those who emigrated from Ger-
many, and were the first settlers of this part of the State.

All of the solid virtues which characterize the German
people wherever found, are well developed in this class of the
inhabitants of th« counties of Carroll, Frederick and Wash-
ington.

The Fatherland on the Rhine has no cause but for exulta-
tion in the character of her children on the Potomac.