A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . Williamson, ut supra, p. 238. STATES AND TERRITORIES. — MAEYLAND. 69 been cherished with a wise care; and tliat of religious instruction has encountered no impedi-ment in an officious legislation, but has been left to its own native energy, and tlie operationof the general laws of the land. It has, therefore, by the blessing of God, been in a flourish-ing state, under the management of different denominations. Of these, Congregationalists,Baptists, and Methodists are the principal; and there are Episcopalians, and a few churchesof Romanists. The
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . Williamson, ut supra, p. 238. STATES AND TERRITORIES. — MAEYLAND. 69 been cherished with a wise care; and tliat of religious instruction has encountered no impedi-ment in an officious legislation, but has been left to its own native energy, and tlie operationof the general laws of the land. It has, therefore, by the blessing of God, been in a flourish-ing state, under the management of different denominations. Of these, Congregationalists,Baptists, and Methodists are the principal; and there are Episcopalians, and a few churchesof Romanists. They enjoy equal liberty and equal protection. Under a separate head in this work will be found an account of tlio colleges, theologicalseminaries, academies, and schools ; as also the statistics of the agriculture, commerce, manu-factures, roads, canals, rivers, bays, harbors, cities, towns, and settlements of the state, whichhas commenced, and is pursuing, under the divine blessing, its high career of well-earnedprosperity. EsTO perpetua!. MARYLAND is one of the thirteen American states, which, after the close of the revolu-tionary war, became parties to the compact whereby they were united into one great nationalfamilv. It is usually designated as tlie southernmost of the Middle States, lying on the Atlan-tic coast; it extends from 38° to 39° 44 nortli latitude, and between 75° 10 and 79° 20 westlongitude; and its superficial area, of which about one hfth is water, is estimated as being9,.) square miles. Tlie present boundaries of the state are as follows: north by Pennsyl-vania, east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, south and west by Virginia, from which it isdivided by the River Potomac. Its form is extremely irregular. Chesapeake Bay, passingthrough the state from north to south, near its centre, separates it into two sections, which areknown respectively as the Eastern Shore and the Western Shore. It is generally understood that Maryland was comprised in the sw
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