Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . down and across thebay and up the noble Nanticoke takes from six-teen to nineteen hours. Salisbury, at the headof navigation on the Wicomico River, one ofthree beautiful streams thus named, can bereached from Baltimore by ferry and rail in lessthan six hours, but the voyage by bay and rivertakes three times as long. Upon all such jour-neys the return voyage is apt to be as interestingas the outward-bound voyage, for the aspect ofthe country, and the activities ashore vary withthe time of day. The man who ca
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . down and across thebay and up the noble Nanticoke takes from six-teen to nineteen hours. Salisbury, at the headof navigation on the Wicomico River, one ofthree beautiful streams thus named, can bereached from Baltimore by ferry and rail in lessthan six hours, but the voyage by bay and rivertakes three times as long. Upon all such jour-neys the return voyage is apt to be as interestingas the outward-bound voyage, for the aspect ofthe country, and the activities ashore vary withthe time of day. The man who carries into his holidays thehurry of his working year, might well be frettedby the easy deliberation of a land where timewas made for slaves. He, however, who wouldrather lose time than save it, who would flee thestrenuous life, who would make the intimateacquaintance of a whole people by the simpleprocess of sailing into their back gardens, whowould feel the semi-tropical character of thelower Eastern Shore, where the fig livesunblighted through the milder winters and the 46 \ :.i:r.
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