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Zostera valisncria, growing in brackish water, and &quot; it is 

 prized by epicures as superior in flavour to every other 

 water-fowl.&quot; It is comparatively plentiful at this season 

 at the mouths of all the creeks and streams that open 

 into Chesapeake Bay, and is in much request in the 

 markets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington. 



I do not know by what means their remarkable excel 

 lence is imparted to the hams of Maryland, but the 

 apple-toddy, on which the State prides itself, is made as 

 follows : &quot; Take a red-streak apple, roast it before a 

 slow fire on a china plate, put it into a half-pint tumbler, 

 mash it well, add one wine-glassful of good cognac, and 

 let it stand twelve hours. Add then two wine-glasses 

 of water, dust it over with nutmeg, put in a spoonful of 

 white sugar stir up well, and drink.&quot; This is genuine 

 apple-toddy, taken as a winter drink mint-juleps taking- 

 its place in summer. Among these jovial middle States 

 rnen, a stranger has a chance of living according to his 

 humour, which the determined temperance-upholding 

 people of the north-eastern States scarcely permit. 



Among the interesting chemico-agricultural facts con 

 nected with this State, communicated to me by Dr 

 Higgins and others, I may mention the existence of a belt 

 of red clay-land, known by the name of the &quot; Mulatto 

 soils,&quot; produced by the crumbling of the metamorphic 

 upper azoic rocks. These contain chlorite, talc, and 

 epidote, crumble readily, and form a soil of a red colour. 

 They are considered by Professor Henry Rogers to be the 

 origin and source of the marls and red-colouring matter 

 of the new red-sandstone deposits of New Jersey, which 

 from these rocks, at a remote geological period, were 

 carried by a then existing river to the place where they 

 are now found. These Mulatto lands possess peculiar 

 agricultural capabilities 5 but the most remarkable cha 

 racter communicated to me was the striking benefit 



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