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2. The Population and Area of the State by Counties.

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8. Value of Maryland Live Stock Products for 1909...

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9. Maryland Lumber and Timber cut by Counties for 1914..

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10. Maryland Manufactures for 1910......

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11. Altitudes in Maryland by Counties.

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1. View of the State House at Annapolis....

2. View of City Hall, Baltimore.....

3. View of Mason and Dixon Line monument stones.

4. Map showing density of population....

5. View of Wye House, a Colonial Mansion in Talbot County...

6. View of Homewood, built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton in 1804. On

grounds of the Johns Hopkins University....

7. View of the historic Wye Oak, Wye Mills, Talbot County...

8. Fort Frederick, Washington County, built in 1756. Where Washington fitted out his Expedition against Fort Duquesne in the French and Indian War

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9. Entrance to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at Chesapeake City, Cecil County

10. Toll House on National Road, built after the State took control of the road in 1834........

11. A modern highway near Princess Anne, Somerset County.. 12. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830, 1832, and 1858..

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13. A modern all-steel coal train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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14. Map showing the physiographic provinces....

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15. Sand dunes near Ocean City, Worcester County..

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16. View of a sand spit, mouth of Fairlee Creek, Kent County.

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17. View showing the nearly-horizontal Miocene formations of the Calvert Cliffs, Calvert County.....

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18. Diagram showing relative position of Coastal Plain Terraces.

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22. Geological section Westminster to Baltimore.

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19. Geological section Port Deposit to Sassafras River..

20. Geological section Washington to Calvert Cliffs..

21. Geological section Cambridge to Atlantic Ocean..

23. Geological section Green Spring Valley to Federal Hill.

24. View of the gorge of the Susquehanna River between Harford and Cecil counties

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25. The Great Falls of the Potomac..

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26. Geological section Big Savage Mountain to the Blue Ridge...

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27. View of the valley of Monroe Run eroded in the Schooley peneplain of the Alleghany Plateau........

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28. Crabtree Creek

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29. View of Swallow Falls, Youghiogheny Valley, Garrett County... 30. View showing folded Silurian rocks of the Appalachian region, Wash

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33. Map showing rainfall...

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34. Beginning of a mine at an outcrop of the Big Vein near Lonaconing, Allegany County

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35. Main entrance to Bluebaugh Mine, near Barrelville, Allegany County.. 104 36. Map showing distribution of the clays...

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37. Beaver Dam Marble quarry, Cockeysville, Baltimore County..

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38. Granite quarry at Port Deposit......

39. Map showing distribution of building stones..

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40. Map showing the valuations of farm buildings...

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41. Map showing the relative annual production of corn... 42. Map showing the relative annual production of wheat. 43. Kent County farm lands of the Talbot terrace plain.. 44. Harvesting wheat in Kent County......

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45. Farming lands near Leonardtown, St. Mary's County. 46. Tobacco field in Charles County....

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47. Map showing the acreage in canning crops...

56. Hemlock forest, Sideling Creek, Washington County.

48. Map showing the relative annual production of tobacco. 49. Type of barn in Carroll County....

50. Cattle raising and dairying in Carroll County...

51. Map showing the relative annual production of milk..
52. Map showing the relative annual production of hay.
53. Farming and orchard land, Allegany County...
54. Sugar-maple grove near Bittinger, Garrett County..

55. Saplings of Loblolly Pine, St. Mary's County. . . .

57. A boat-load of oysters, Somerset County...

58. A fish hatchery......

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63. A blast furnace of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point.

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64. Ore docks at Sparrows Point.....

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65. Delivering sweet corn at cannery, Easton, Talbot County.

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66. View of Baltimore harbor and sky-line....

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67. The lower harbor from historic Fort McHenry.

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68. Light Street wharves at the head of Baltimore's harbor...

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69. View of Cumberland and the "Narrows" of Wills Mountain..

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73. Diagram showing relative position of Coastal Plain terraces.

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74. Map showing the annual precipitation...

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75. Map showing the drainage basins...

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76. Diagrammatic section showing the relation of water table to surface

irregularities

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77. Diagram showing the loss in head by friction and leakage..
78. Diagram illustrating artesian conditions in the Coastal Plain.
79. Diagram illustrating artesian conditions in Western Maryland.
80. Diagram showing an ordinary hillside spring..

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81. Diagram showing a deep-seated spring.......

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82. Diagram showing right and wrong locations for wells...

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83. Diagram showing relations between depth and an unfailing supply of water

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84. Diagram showing the action of clays or shales in confining water in sand or sandstone.....

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90. Map of the Baltimore district showing water horizons.

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