Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . f moderate curves and gentle slopes, with a fewexceptions, where it breaks through some ranges of trap rocks,which interpose themselves among the softer shales. The Monroviaand Ijamsville Stations are passed at Bush Creek. The slates ter-minate at the Monocacy River, and the limestone of the Frederick-town Valley commences. That river is crossed by a bridge of threetimber
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . f moderate curves and gentle slopes, with a fewexceptions, where it breaks through some ranges of trap rocks,which interpose themselves among the softer shales. The Monroviaand Ijamsville Stations are passed at Bush Creek. The slates ter-minate at the Monocacy River, and the limestone of the Frederick-town Valley commences. That river is crossed by a bridge of threetimber spans one hundred and ten feet each, and elevated about fortyfeet above its bed. At this point, fifty-seven miles from Baltimore,the Frederick Branch, of three miles in length, leaves the Main Roadand terminates at the city of that name, the centre of one of the mostfertile, populous, and wealthy sections of Maryland. From the Monocacy to the Point of Rocks, the road having es-caped from the narrow winding valleys to which it has thus far beenconfined, bounds away over the beautiful champaign country lyingbetween that river and the Catoctin Mountain. This rolling region 422 NEW YORK SUBSCRIBERS. ENAIViELED ^T&. G >§^ MANUFACTURERS OF THIS STYLE OF
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