. Historic towns of the Southern States. ht of grain, tobacco, dairy products andwhiskey to Baltimore for foreign shipment;and in spite of overtrading and the resultingperiod of depression, such was Baltimoresprogress that in 1825 Jared Sparks couldsay, Among all the cities of America, or ofthe Old World, in modern or ancient times,there is no record of any one which has sprungup so quickly to so high a degree of import-ance as Baltimore. At this time the popula-tion of Baltimore was five times as great as ithad been thirty years before, and commercehad increased proportionately. The causesof
. Historic towns of the Southern States. ht of grain, tobacco, dairy products andwhiskey to Baltimore for foreign shipment;and in spite of overtrading and the resultingperiod of depression, such was Baltimoresprogress that in 1825 Jared Sparks couldsay, Among all the cities of America, or ofthe Old World, in modern or ancient times,there is no record of any one which has sprungup so quickly to so high a degree of import-ance as Baltimore. At this time the popula-tion of Baltimore was five times as great as ithad been thirty years before, and commercehad increased proportionately. The causesof this remarkable progress were enumeratedby Sparks as the advantages of Baltimoreslocal situation, the swift sailing-vessels, theSan Domingan trade, the two great staples, Baltimore 35 tobacco and flour, for which the demand isalways sure, and the supply unfailing, andlastly, the energetic spirit of the people. During all this period the city improved inappearance as well as in size. Especiallycharacteristic of the new Baltimore was Bel-. BELVIDERE, 1786, THE HOME OF COL. JOHN E. HOWARD. videre, the residence of Colonel John EagerHoward. Belvidere was completed in 1794,and only a few years ago was dismantled bythe ruthless hand of the city surveyor, to makeway for the progress of the ever-expandingcity by the extension of North Calvert Belvidere, which at the beginning ofthe century was a half-mile from Baltimore,one could look down, as from some mediaeval 36 Baltimore castle, upon the bustling town below. In theview from Belvidere, we are told, the town, — the Point, the shipping in the Basin andat Fells Point, the bay as far as the eye can reach,rising ground on the right and left of the harbor, — agrove of trees on the declivity on the right, a stream ofwater [Joness Falls] breaking over the rocks at the footof the hill on the left, all conspire to complete thebeauty and the grandeur of the prospect. Here, as at many of the country-seats nearBaltimore, a lavis
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