THE 



AGEICULTURAL MUSEUM* 



OMl-ns FERET OMNIA TELLUS. ViEc. 



Vol. I.] Georgetoivn, Ca. August 15, 1810. [No. 4. 



Tie Colunibian Agricultural Socitty have received 

 from the Ifonorable Mr. Smith, Secretary of State, a 

 late and enlarged edition of Lord Somerville's Essaijs 

 on Husbandry, presented in the name of the Author, 



This verj' valuable book treats at large of Sheep and 

 JVool — of the relative merits of £)ra«g-/if Caf//e, and of 

 Implnnents of Hushandry — and contains a Record of 

 Lfv.d Somerville's ce ebrated Ca'tlc Shows — from their 

 origin in 1802, to and includ rg the year 1809. 



FOR THE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM, 



Hoads and Inland Navigation. 

 Arnong the numerous majestic rivers of the United 

 Shites, the Potomak holds no inferior rank. It takes 

 its rise in that great chain of mountains which separates 

 the Western Waters from those that flow more direct!}'" 

 into the Atlantic; and, after having- marked the bounda- 

 ry betvven Virginia and Maryland fur above 3(i0 

 milfs, dis.harg 'S itself into the Chesapeake by a mouth 

 more than seven miies in width. It has tide water suf- 

 fi »enc for sea vessrls nearly half its whole length ; and 

 is navigable for boats to VVesternport, within a short 

 distance of its source. The little or lower falls are in 

 the District of Columbia. Merchant ships of the largest 

 size, can come up, without difficulty, to the citj' of Wash- 

 ington — I [)oint farther into the main land, anrl more dis- 

 tant from the Ocean, than any other in the United States^ 

 to whirh ships of such burden can navigate with ease. 

 ISu aucuoid of considerable magnitude uiiiie with it, be- 



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