MARYLAND. 



SITUATION AND EXTENT. 



Miles. 



Length 134 

 Breadth 110 



between 



75° 10' and 79° 20' West longitude. 

 38° and 39° 44' North latitude. 



bq. Miles. 

 14,000 



Boundaries. ...Bounded by Pennsylvania and Delaware on the 

 north ; by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, on the east ; by Virginia, 

 on the south and west. 



Divisions.. ..Maryland is naturally divided into two parts by the bay 

 of Chesapeak, the eastern and the western. It contains 19 counties. 



Counties. 



Population. 



Chief Towns. 



Worcester, 



16,971 



Snow Hill. 



Somerset, 



17,195 



Princess Anne. 



Dorchester, 



18,108 



Cambridge. 



Talbot, 



14,230 



Easton. 



Cecil, 



13,066 



Eikton. 



Queen Anne's, 



16,648 



Centreville. 



Kent, 



11,450 



Chester. 



Caroline, 



9,453 



Denton. 



St. Mary's, 



12,794 



Leonardtown. 



Charles, 



20,245 



Port Tobacco. 



Prince George, 



20,589 



Upper Marlborough. 



Calvert, . 



8,005 



Prince Frederick, St. Leonards 



Ann Arundel, 



26,668 



Annapolis, West long. 75° 8' N 

 lat. 38° 56'. 



Baltimore, 



75,710 



Baltimore. 



Frederic, 



34,437 



Frederic Town. 



Washington, 



18,730 



Hagerstown. 



Montgomery, 



17,980 



Montgomery. 



Harford, 



21,258 



Beilair. 



Allegheny, 



6,909 



Cumberland. 



The eight first counties are on the Eastern shore of the Chesa- 

 peak. 



Rivers. ...This country is indented with a vast number of navigable 

 creeks and rivers. The chief are Potomac, which divides it from 

 Virginia, Pocomoke, Patuxent, Choptank, Severn, Patapsco, Gun- 

 powder, Bush, Monokin, Wicomico, Nanticoke, Chester, Elk, East, 

 and Sassafras. 



Face <f the country, climate, soil, and produce. ...In these 

 particulars this state has nothing remarkable by which it may be 



