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ly in June—the sky of Egypt in autumn—and
the snow and cold of Norway, and the ice cf
Holland in winter—the temptest (in a certain
degree) of the West Indies in every season,
pud the variable winds and weather of Great
Britain, in every month of the year." This is
sufficient to account for the "consistent varia-
bility' with which he began his description, and
must leave the stranger who seeks for informa-
tion respecting climates, from the pages of our
principal geographer, little relish for such a
home for himself and his posterity as a region so
little congenial to a temporal comfort, which is
but second to health itself. We may presume,
however, from the well known fact, that most
of the emigrants from Europe, have chosen to
direct their steps to some of the middle states,
that common fame has happily corrected the
unkindness of our American Geographer to-
wards us.

CHAPTER IX.

NATURAL PRODUCTS.

Wheat and Tobacco are the staplle commo-
dities of Maryland, for the cultivation of which
is well as of Indian Corn, the soil an cli-
mate are well adapted. Good lands well cul-
tivated, produce from 12 to 25 bushels of"
wheat, and from 20 to 30 of corn, but the