Things as They are Author:Theodore Dwight Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BALTIMORE. 23 There are several fine sights presented on that part of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad which lies along the Washington road for three or four m... more »iles before we reach the former city. In one place it passes a broad and deep valley on the top of a great embankment, while a stream and a country-road cross its route through arched openings far beneath. It is travelled to the " Point of Rocks," on the Potomac. The scenery to Fredericktown, 60 miles, is constantly varying, and often wild and romantic. Ellicott's Mills may be compared with Little Falls on the Erie Canal. CHAPTER III. Baltimore—Route to Philadelphia—Railroads. Baltimore has as much the appearance of prosperity and enterprise, in proportion to its size, as perhaps any city in America. The broad and straight streets are lined with, large stores and dwellings, some of which rival in taste the best in the country, and are thronged with well-dressed and busy people. The monuments, rising high in the air from open squares, give an imposing effect; while the shipping in the river and harbour, and the noble railroads extending towards Susquehanna and the Ohio, with which it is designed to open a direct communication, indicate that the inhabitants have the intelligence and the ability to accomplish great things, to promote that commerce which is the main-spring of the city. The number of stage-coaches, which arrive and depart is truly astonishing. Scarcely a . jum-uu uf an liuur passed, when I was so situated at the Indian Queen as to observe the street, without the alighting of travellers or the strapping on of more baggage ; and frequently several stage-coaches stood at once before the door. The travelling by steamboats and railroads is also very great; so that when navigation is. open and Congress,is in...« less