GENERAL GEOGRAPHY. 13

ttands Fort McHenry, it connects with the
bason of water upon which the city of Balti-
more is situated, and which receives at its head,
a fine mill-stream, called Jones' Falls. Fifteen
miles below Baltimore, the Patapsco flows into
the Chesapeake.

The Magothy, Severn, South, and West ri-
vers, are navigable waters, penetrating a few
miles from the west side of the Chesapeake into
Anne-Arundel county.

The Patuxent takes its rise in two branches
near the point where Frederick, Baltimore,
Montgomery and Anne-Arundel Counties in-
tersect each other; the branches unite a few
miles above the village of Queen-Ann, thence it
runs nearly parallel, v ith the Potomac and has a
fine harbor for shipping within its mouth. The
river is navigable for 50 miles; its entire length
is about 100 miles. It is the dividing line be-
tween Saint Mary's, Charles, and Prince Geor-
ge's Counties, which lay on its south side, and
Calvert and Anne Arundel, on its north.

On the Eastern Shore, the Pocomoke rises
in the Cyprus Swamps, and runs south and
south-west, forty miles to Pocomoke bay, which
joins the Chesapeake at the Virginia line.

The Wycomoco runs south-west, about twen-
ty miles.

The Nanticoke rises in the ridge of the pen-
insula in Delaware, and runs soath and south
west, twenty-five miles in that state and thirty
miles in Maryland. It is the largest river be-
tween the Delaware and Chesapeake bays.