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CHAPTER VII. 



ANNAPOLIS — DELAWARE — NEW JERSEY — NEW YORK STATE — THE GREAT 

 EMPORIUM — CHICAGO IN FLAMES. 



After my period of relaxation, I re-entered 

 the active duties of my profession feeling greatly 

 invigorated. I visited the pleasant city of An- 

 napolis, the capital of Maryland, where I met a 

 cordial reception from many whose warm appre- 

 ciation of my system of educating the horse was 

 coupled with marks of personal friendship. Here, 

 as in other places on former occasions, my en- 

 deavors were crowned with a gratifying success. 

 It is at this place that the United States Naval 

 Academy is situated, an institution which sus- 

 tains the same relation to the navy that West 

 Point bears to the army of our country. In the 

 extent of its bounds, covering, as it does, an area 

 of about twenty acres, and in the completeness 

 of its appointments, this academy is unequaled 

 in the United States. Here I was introduced 



