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loam, up to the line of Talbot county. They are 

 adapted to growing corn, melons, sweet potatoes, 

 and such fruits as peaches, strawberries, &c., and 

 are generally quite level. Where unimproved, they 

 are valued at $10 per acre; where improved, at 

 from $20 to $50. 



Continuing north, on the same shore, the lands 

 are generally of a red, stiff soil, level or slightly 

 rolling, and are underlaid with beds of marl. They 

 produce large crops of wheat, corn, fruits, and roots. 

 These lands, unimproved, along the broad waters, 

 are valued at from $30 to $40 per acre ; if im 

 proved, at from $60 to $80. Further inland, the 

 prices are one-half less. The country along the 

 whole of this shore is indented with numerous broad 

 and deep inlets, furnishing the inhabitants with vast 

 supplies of the finest fish and oysters, crabs, terra 

 pins, and the famous canvas-back and other varieties 

 of ducks. ISTear the larger towns, and in many 

 other localities, will be found a very superior so 

 ciety. Access to the cities is had by a railroad 

 partly completed, and by steamboats traversing the 

 Chesapeake Bay. 



The Western shore will be found, from its most 

 southern point north to the line of Anne Arundel 

 and Prince George county, to be of sandy and sandy 

 loam soil, and in all respects like the first part of the 

 Eastern shore described above, except that the land 

 is more undulating, and produces a light variety of 

 tobacco in large quantities. The value per acre is 

 about the same. 



Going North, on the same shore, we reach the 



