42 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA ? 
fish, &c. &c,*. The charge made for breaks 
fast is nearly the same as that for dinner. 
This part of Maryland abounds with iron 
ore,, which is of a quality particularly well 
adapted for casting. The ore is found in banks 
so near the surface of the earth that there is 
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never occasion to sink a shaft to get at it. 
Near Charleston there is a small foundry for 
cannon. The cannon are bored by water. As 
I passed by, they were making twenty-four- 
pounders, two of which I was informed they 
finished every week. The iron is extremely 
tough; very few of the guns burst on being 
proved. 
The Susquellannah river is crossed, on the 
way to Baltimore, at a ferry five miles above 
its entrance into the Chesapeak. The river 
is here about a mile and a quarter wide, and 
deep enough for any vessels; the banks are 
high and thickly wooded, and the scenery is 
grand and picturesque. A small town called 
Havre de Grace, which contains about forty 
houses, stands on this river at the ferry. A 
petition was presented to congress the last year 
to have it made a port of entry; but at present 
* The landlady always presides at the head of the table to 
make the tea, or a female servant attends for that pappose at 
breakfast and in the evening; and at many taverns in the 
country the whole of the family sit down to dinner with th* 
guests. 
