The international geography . rting an active fishingindustry ; oysters being included under fisheries on commercial ratherthan zoological grounds. The Potomac valley leads a great railroad fromthe harbour city towards the Ohio region ; but the difficulties encounteredin crossing the Allegheny Plateau and the comparatively small populationon the way, have madethis line less successfulfinancially than the chiefrailroads further , Baltimorehas in Johns Hopkins, thesouthernmost universityof wide resort, as Bostonhas (in its suburb ofCambridge) Harvard, thenorthernmost great uni
The international geography . rting an active fishingindustry ; oysters being included under fisheries on commercial ratherthan zoological grounds. The Potomac valley leads a great railroad fromthe harbour city towards the Ohio region ; but the difficulties encounteredin crossing the Allegheny Plateau and the comparatively small populationon the way, have madethis line less successfulfinancially than the chiefrailroads further , Baltimorehas in Johns Hopkins, thesouthernmost universityof wide resort, as Bostonhas (in its suburb ofCambridge) Harvard, thenorthernmost great uni-versity ; the latter is anoutgrowth of an earlycolonial beginning in 1636. It is noteworthv that ^^^- SS^-—H^s/nn^/on and the Disliid of Columbia the three great commercial cities just described are not the capitals of theirStates. The State governments have their seats in Albany on the Hudson,Harrisburg on the Susquehanna, and Annapolis on Chesapeake , whose situation on the lower drowned Potomac corresponds. 73^ The International Geography to that of Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay, is purely a governmental great water power of the Potomac, where it runs from the OldAppalachian Belt to the Coastal Plain, is not yet utilised for manufactures. THE ALLEGHENY PLATEAU The Allegheny Plateau (A P in Fig. 353) is the westernmost divisionof the Atlantic highlands. It retains much of the forest which originallycovered nearly all the region east of the Mississippi and south of the altitude ranges from 2,000 to 4,000 feet. It extends as far south-west asthe mountain belt, and like it disappears under the coastal plain of theGulf. It is terminated on the east by a strong escarpment, known asAllegheny or Cumberland Mountain in different parts of its front; but onthe west or north-west it as a rule decreases in height gradually, and thusmerges into the prairie region of the Ohio basin. On the north-east, theplateau is known as the Catskill Mountains, overlooki
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