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These pages were omitted on page 86. They should
have followed in the general description of the
Blue Ridge Division.

Through one of its rivers, the Susquehaunah, is now con-
veyed nearly all of the crude products of the forests of New
York and Pennsylvania, and arrangements are now being
perfected which will make this the source from which a great
part of the Atlantic border will receive its supplies of lumber,
the profits of this great trade will thus be secured to this sec-
tion, and its benefits imparted to every part of the State

The portion of the State which is included in this Division
is all that part of the counties of Cecil, Harford and Balti-
more, lying above tide-water, and Howard, Montgomery, Car-
roll, Frederick and Washington counties.

A brief description of each of these counties is all that is
required, as they lay in a position where their general features
are constantly subject to view from the highways of travel
which intersect them, and because they have their counterpart
in the country lying north of them in Pennsylvania and New
York in all save convenience to market and genialty of cli-
mate; it being a fact widely promulgated from various au-
thentic sources that the soil in the various regions holding
the same general relation to the Alleghany mountains has
great similarity in character, being formed from the degrada-
tion of the same rocks, and a similarity in the production of
vegetable life influenced only by difference in climate.

The productions of the dairy hold a prominent place in this
division, and cattle, sheep and hogs of the finest breeds, with
horses of the best utilitarian blood are found in large num-
bers.

As a general thing, the various branches of husbandry are
practiced with admirable skill and economy, and no part of
the Union can present a superior practical agricultural popu-
lation, none showing evidences of superior comfort and hap-
piness.

If careful calculations be made, it will be found that with
the intrinsic advantages of this division of the State, its lands
even at their highest price, present far better advantages for