MARYLAND 



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MARYLAND 



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 DISTBICT OF COLUMBIA 



SCALE OF MILES 



6 10 20 



Coal 



Navigable Rivers 



Canal 



C.S.H. 4 CO..N.Y. 



OUTLINE MAP 

 Showing boundaries, navigable rivers, principal cities, and the highest point of land in the state. 



Park and Blue Ridge College at New Windsor. 

 Other prominent institutions are Goucher and 



Hood colleges for women at Baltimore; 

 Woman's College at Frederick; Maryland Col- 

 lege for Women at Lutherville; Morgan Col- 

 lege, a coeducational school for the colored at 

 Baltimore, and Jacob Tome Institute, at Port 

 Deposit. Conducted under the auspices of the 

 Roman Catholic Church are Loyola College 

 and Mount Saint Joseph College at Baltimore ; 

 Rock Hill College at Elliot City, and Mount 

 Saint Mary's College at Emmetsburg. The 

 United States naval training station is at An- 

 napolis. 



The Land. The diversified surface of the 

 state may be divided into three distinct sec- 

 tions. These are the coastal plain, the Pied- 

 mont plateau and the Appalachian province. 



The coastal plain, or Tidewater Maryland, 

 occupying more "than half the state, is divided 

 in half by Chesapeake Bay, two-thirds of which 

 lies in the state of Maryland. The bay is from 

 ten to forty miles wide and is navigable by the 

 largest ships. Its many arms and estuaries 

 afford numerous and excellent harbors. The 

 east shore is low and level, in few places, except 

 at the extreme north end, rising more than 

 twenty-five feet. The west coast is higher, 

 rising to an elevation of 300 feet at Baltimore. 

 Along the Atlantic border there is a long, reef- 

 like sand beach enclosing shallow lagoons 

 called Chincoteague and Sinepuxent bays. 



The rivers flowing into the Atlantic are in- 

 significant; most of the state is drained by the 



broad-mouthed rivers emptying into Chesa- 

 peake Bay. The largest of these are the Nan- 

 ticoke, Choptank and Chester, on the east 

 shore, and the Potomac, Susquehanna, Patux- 

 ent, Patapsco and Gunpowder, on the west 

 shore. The northeast corner of the state is 

 drained into Christian Creek and the extreme 

 northwest section, towards the Ohio River. 



The Piedmont plateau, extending forty miles 

 from the Atlantic plain to Catoctin Mountain, 

 is broken and hilly. The highest points are at 

 Parr's Ridge, in Carroll County, and Sugar 

 Loaf Mountain, which rises abruptly to an 

 elevation of 1,281 feet. Between Parr's Ridge 

 and Catoctin Mountain lies the level, fertile 

 Frederick Valley, drained by the Monocacy 

 River into the Potomac. 



The Appalachian region is a succession of 

 valleys and parallel, wooded mountain ridges 

 extending from northeast to southwest. The 

 Blue Ridge range, which rises 2,400 feet near 

 the Pennsylvania line, crosses the state east of 

 the Hagerstown valley. This range, together 

 with North Mountain, lying west of Hagers- 

 town valley, and the Alleghany ridge, between 

 North Mountain and Cumberland, are the 

 chief mountain chains. The highest point in 

 the state is Eagle Rock, 3,162 feet, situated in 

 the northwestern corner of the state, near the 

 West Virginia boundary. 



Climate. Owing to the diversity of its sur- 

 face, Maryland has many varieties of climate. 

 In the western mountainous region the winters 

 are cold and the summers short and cool. In 



