928 Abstract of a Journal kept in Maryland. 
setting foot on shore, 
haminer, the hum of business, and sight 
ot hbivian beings, make me feel myself 
once more launched from the cradle of the 
Ocean into the active world! Aftera pe- 
rilous and tempestuous voyage of ten 
weeks, behold me once more landed in a 
country, justly considered as the asylum of 
persecuted Europe. A shower of rain, 
and the lateness of the evening, give me 
no opportunity of seemg much of the 
Point. ‘There are always coaches here, 
which charge is. 13. for taking a person 
to any part of the city, and the farthest 
part may be three imles. With little dif 
ficulty I find my way to where I thought 
Evans lived, but he was removed; and I’ 
then went, in the same street, to the sign 
of Neptune, kept by one Comorinsky, a 
German. He asked six dollars per week 
for board and lodging, not including li- 
ear, except at dinner. -I continued with 
him three nights, but He his accom- 
modations, on account oi the abominable 
filth, Lleft. The house is large and airy, 
capable of affording, all reasonable com- 
fort. You havea large lobby, from which 
you enter his bar-room, where there is an 
Infernal stove, and this is the usual place 
for sitting in. Here, in about three yards 
square, area dozen persons, smoking and 
Spliting upon. the floor or stove, “from 
wich there arise the most deleterious cf 
fluvia, the basis of which is large undi- 
gested Bologna sausages, just swallowed 
at breakfast, or supper. 
I slept 1 in a room upon the second sto- 
ry, at the farthest end of alobby. The 
floor was brick, spparenny not cleaned 
since the last century. The walls had 
been white- er ‘but were mopped 
over with dirt. The bed was under a 
window which let the cold in, and with- 
out curtains To prevent taking cold, 
the only alternative was to cover myself 
completely, and he kept half smothered. 
The. w ashing-place is upon a bench in 
the yard, where is a towel pro bono pub- 
lico, whi io may coitain the germ of dis- 
order, &c. and is, at all events, a flag of 
abomination. 
I went on the § Sunday to the Protes- 
tant church, whichis new and handsome. 
The preacher is reckoned famous, the 
congregation were genteel, and I was, 
upon the whole. much gratifed. The 
doctrine was, however, Calvinistical, and 
the preacher opoke with feeling and vehe- 
mence against the fashionable amuse- 
ments of the times.. There is a great 
ahew of outward devotion on the Sabbath- 
The noise of the - 
-[Oct. 1, 
day. Baltimore contains about five thou~ 
sand inhabitants. J dined to-day at 
Evans’s ordmary, where about fifty sat 
down to a most excellent dinner. They 
do not sit after dinner. Evans makes 
up about! seventy beds, and they are 
generally allengaged. His rent is £.710 
per annum. His house is amazing~ 
ly large; fifty yards in depth, by ten, 
and six stories bigh. It stands in Balti- 
more, or Market street, which is the 
principal street, and a mile long. The 
rents in this street are in proportion to 
theabove. Aconfectionertold me he paid 
six hundred dollars per annum for only 
three small rooms on the ground-floor ; 
one fronting the street, six yards by six 3 
the second an eating-room, four yards by 
three; and the third a kitchen, five yards 
by three, with a very small back yard, 
Rents struck me to be about one a 
dred per cent. higher than in Liverpool, 
and living fifty per cent. cheaper; I mean 
as to provisions, clothing being thirty per 
cent. higher than in Liverpool. Beef was 
ten dollars -per hogshead, pork eight, 
geese two shillings and three-pence, tur- 
keys three shillings and four-pence half- 
penny, fowls one shilling and sixpence 
per couple. The beef is young, tender, 
and juicy, not being fed upon the Bedford 
plan, which bids fair to turn beef into ba- 
con. There is, however, little fat upon 
the loins, and the cattle are in general 
small, say about five hundred weight, 
The poultry are excellent, and their sus. 
periority to ours is said to be owing to 
their feed of Indian corn. Having 
met with H , 1 accompanied him - 
into the country, where I was glad te ~ 
find his good mother and sister as busy. 
as bees, not having in the least for- 
gotten that they were Englishwomen, | 
The country on both sides of the road, 
from Baltimore towards Pittsburg, is so 
amazing!y changed in appearance within 
the last ten years, by the erection of | 
country-seats, and the clearing of wood, 
that I might have supposed [ had never. 
seen it belore. This is principally ow- 
ing to the jenn fever, which has fright- 
ened the weal thy from the city, for ciel { 
land is miserably poor, the soil being not 
more than three inches deep, with a suba' 
stratum of clay. I observe some-enclo= 
sures exhibit a luxuriant appearance ef — 
clover. They are indebted for this to 
7 ee 
Pre ay eee > 
. plaster of Paris, which is now used im- 
considerable quantities. I am informed © 
it has a tendency tocement the loose na= __ 
ture of the soil, thus preventing it from, 
