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among which great, fat eels of 5-6 pounds' weight are 

 not seldom taken. Gold-perch and full-fish are likewise 

 caught here, and the taste of them is praised, but I have 

 not seen them. The river is here a mile wide, its banks 

 high, and (as well as a few small islands) set with 

 stately trees; what with the fine prospect towards the 

 distant mountains, at a better time of the year this must 

 be a splendid landscape. The breadth of Maryland in 

 this hinterland, from Tonnytown to the Potowmack, 

 which divides this province from the following, is 43 

 miles. 



