LITERATURE 127

Fish, cannot be otherwise than abundant,
where water is so convenient as it is in this
state The Shad and Herring fisheries are of
vast advantage, furnishing not only a material
article for consumation within the state, but a
profitable item for exportation. The Perch,
Rock, Mackarel, Trout, Ale Wife, Catfish,
Place, Flounder, Whiting, Pike, Sole, Sheep's
Head, Drums, and many other varieties are
taken in the waters of the Chesapeake and its
tributaries, and constitute.no small, proportion
of the food of the inhabitants.

REPTILES—Of the venemous kinds are ra-
pidly disappearing, with the native forrests
and marches that are yielding to cultivation.

CHTPTER X.
LITERATURE.

A common english education has been
obtained by most of the white population
of Maryland Having no general system
for primary schools, it is in many places ob-
tained with great incouvenience, and ever-
where at a heavy exp
those states where
tion has
that