Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . A HARBOR OF REST. AN AMPHIBIAN OX-TEAM CHESAPEAKE VOYAGES you tower above the puny lighthouse with itsmalignant red danger speck menacing your after the vessel passes the locks, the canalwidens into what looks like a lovely river,and its umbrageous shores beneath the moon areas romantic as those of many a natural smells the odor of magnolia blossoms, seesthe dim cattle at feed upon gently sloping pas-tures, hears the croon of sleeping birds in thethicket, and can almost reach from the ti
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . A HARBOR OF REST. AN AMPHIBIAN OX-TEAM CHESAPEAKE VOYAGES you tower above the puny lighthouse with itsmalignant red danger speck menacing your after the vessel passes the locks, the canalwidens into what looks like a lovely river,and its umbrageous shores beneath the moon areas romantic as those of many a natural smells the odor of magnolia blossoms, seesthe dim cattle at feed upon gently sloping pas-tures, hears the croon of sleeping birds in thethicket, and can almost reach from the tinycabin window and snatch bits of the foliage asthe little steamer threshes slowly along itsjourney of fourteen miles to the final lock atChesapeake City. No city, save Baltimore, has at its back doorso rich a market garden as the almost semi-tropical watershed of the Chesapeake affords,so swarming and vast a fishpond as that of thebay and its tidal tributaries. From earliestmorning twilight till seven or eight oclock thewater-front streets of Baltimore are dense withevery kind of draft vehicle, and
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