. Book of the Royal blue . boundary between Cecil and HarfordCounties, Maryland; emptying into theChesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, whichis the most convenient town for sportsmensheadquarters for this section. In bothcounties special game laws prevail, madenecessary for the protection of game on ac-count of the superabundance thereof, andthe possible greed of irresponsible huntersfrom the crowded eastern cities to bag morethan a reasonable share. Between Harford and Baltimore Coun- dant in the brackish waters of the riversemptying into the Bay. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad fromBaltimore to Wa
. Book of the Royal blue . boundary between Cecil and HarfordCounties, Maryland; emptying into theChesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, whichis the most convenient town for sportsmensheadquarters for this section. In bothcounties special game laws prevail, madenecessary for the protection of game on ac-count of the superabundance thereof, andthe possible greed of irresponsible huntersfrom the crowded eastern cities to bag morethan a reasonable share. Between Harford and Baltimore Coun- dant in the brackish waters of the riversemptying into the Bay. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad fromBaltimore to Washington crosses Howardand Prince George Counties, through aterritory of no principal importance for anykind of game. West of Washington therailroad crosses Montgomery County, andstrikes the Potomac River at its confluencewith the Monocacy River. Irom this pointthe Monocacy Valley extends northwardthrough Frederick County, east of theCatoctin Mountains, the most beautiful 6 HUNTING GROUNDS OF MARYLASD AND WEST VIRGINIA. ••TURKEYS HUNTING GROUNDS OF MARYLAND AND WEST VIRGINIA agricultural section of Maryland. Thesurrounding countrj- abounds in smallgame, such as squirrel, rabbit, pheasant andpartridge or quail. Partridge andquail are synonymous in the states ofMaryland, Virginia and West Virginia,partridge being the term generally of the Ohio River the name ofquail predominates. From Washington Junction the mainline of the Baltimore & Ohio skirts thePotomac River through Frederick Countyand across a narrow strip of WashingtonCounty, crossing the river at HarpersFerry, where the road enters West Vir-ginia on its route across the AlleghanyMountains, following the border line be-tween Maryland and West Virginia, withWashington and Allegheny Counties inMaryland on the north side of the Poto-mac, and Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan,Hampshire and Mineral Counties in WestVirginia on the south side, in the ordernamed from east to west. Throughout this valley of the PotomacR
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