. A day in historic and beautiful Annapolis. the Severn,laden with gaily dressed ladies and gentlemen, with their pow-dered wigs; while long rows of sedan chairs lined Duke ofGloucester Street, the location of the Assembly Room and Play-house of Annapolis. The harbor, so quiet and peaceful now,was daily full of large ships from England and the Barbadoes,and even in 1815, it was one of the most important seaports inAmerica. When Christopher Hughes, a Marylander, broughta copy of the treaty of Client for President Madison to sign, he landed at Annapolis — a treaty between England and Amer-ica th
. A day in historic and beautiful Annapolis. the Severn,laden with gaily dressed ladies and gentlemen, with their pow-dered wigs; while long rows of sedan chairs lined Duke ofGloucester Street, the location of the Assembly Room and Play-house of Annapolis. The harbor, so quiet and peaceful now,was daily full of large ships from England and the Barbadoes,and even in 1815, it was one of the most important seaports inAmerica. When Christopher Hughes, a Marylander, broughta copy of the treaty of Client for President Madison to sign, he landed at Annapolis — a treaty between England and Amer-ica that lias stood the test of one hundred years already. As we came out of the Court of Appeals Building, the Gov-ernors Mansion was directly before us, with its garden ofbeautiful flowers and fine old trees. This cannot be regardedas a colonial house, being built in 1858, but it is a handsomeresidence of that period. In the drawing-room is a large por-trait of Queen Henrietta ]\Iaria, painted by jNIiss Florence Mac-kubin, a Maryland King Charles liiinself suggested that Lord Baltimore callhis new Province for liis Queen Terra ]\Iariae (]Maryland).The State of Maryland ordered this painting of HenriettaMaria, and Miss Mackubin was allowed to go to Warwick Cas-tle to copy the celebrated Van Dyck of her there. Our next point of interest was St. Annes Episcopal Churchon Church Circle, and on our way to it from tlie GovernorsMansion, we passed the artistic Memorial Fountain, erected todo honor to the memory of Rev. W. S. Southgate, a faithfulrector of St. Aiuies for thirty years. A tall, graceful cross,with a wide basin of fresh water below it. whert^ several horseswere quenching their thirst, seems a beautiful tribute to a min- ister who, for so many years, told his congregation of the Wa-ter of Life. On the same broad square was a modern postoffice, a monu-ment to the architect, who kept the colonial lines of Annapolisin building. It is one of the most admired postoffices
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