A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ence of the city on the twelfthand thirteenth of September, 1814. The Washington Monument is builtof white marble, on an elevation in the north part of the city; it is onehundred and sixty-three feet high, and on its summit is placed a colossalstatue of Washingt
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ence of the city on the twelfthand thirteenth of September, 1814. The Washington Monument is builtof white marble, on an elevation in the north part of the city; it is onehundred and sixty-three feet high, and on its summit is placed a colossalstatue of Washington. This monument is embellished with bas-reliefs,and other decorations. Baltimore is the greatest flour market in the United States. In its im-mediate neighborhood, are above sixty flour mills, a single one of whichhas produced thirty-two thousand barrels in a year. Within the samecompass are numerous manufactories of cotton, cloth, powder, paper, iron,glass, steam engines, and other articles. The Baltimore and Ohio rail-road extends a distance of three hundred miles, from this city to the Ohioriver at Pittsburgh. The Baltimore and Susquehanna rail-road is to 276 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. extend seventy-six miles to York in Pennsylvania. The Chesapeak andOhio canal, of the proposed length of three hundred and forty-one miles,. was commenced in thousand.* Battle Monument, Baltimore. The population of Baltimore is about eighty- * Baltimore has the honor, I believe, of being the first city which has raised an ar-chitectural memorial of its gratitude to Washington. It consists of a column of whitemarble, rising from a quadrangular base. The shaft of the column is about one hun-dred and twenty feet high, and is surmounted by a colossal statue, which, from itsthrone, seems proudly to overlook the city. The design of this monument, which isyet unfinished, is simple and grand, and does honor to the taste of the city. Its grossheight, including the statue and pedestal, is ab
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