. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. 0 rrrrrrr rarrrrrrrwrrrrrrr^roT-fTrr NsroxfrrrrrTXHEnpagyE grrpif^ ^ 3 ^ ** MARYLAND. 199 The City of Baltimore. town route. See chapter on Dela-ware. BALTIMORE AND VICINITY. Baltimore, one of the four greatEastern cities, with a population of over200,000, is imposingly situated upon thePatapsco River, 12 miles from
. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. 0 rrrrrrr rarrrrrrrwrrrrrrr^roT-fTrr NsroxfrrrrrTXHEnpagyE grrpif^ ^ 3 ^ ** MARYLAND. 199 The City of Baltimore. town route. See chapter on Dela-ware. BALTIMORE AND VICINITY. Baltimore, one of the four greatEastern cities, with a population of over200,000, is imposingly situated upon thePatapsco River, 12 miles from its en-trance into the Chesapeake Bay, andabout 200 miles, by these waters, fromthe sea. Built, as it is, upon hill-slopesand terraces, its appearance is, perhaps,more picturesque than that of any othercity in the Union. As seen from thewater, the climbing streets, crowned, atlast, by dome and spire; and, soaringyet, above all, from the crest of theloftiest eminence, in the heart of all,the tall marble column of the Washing-ton Monument, the effect is exceedinglyfine; and not less so the look-downupon the city and the surrounding land-scape, from the summit of this loftypile so proudly placed. The Washington Monument, chiefamong the structures of this kind, fromwhich Balti
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