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HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
BALTIMORE
THE MONUMENTAL CITY
By ST. GEORGE L. SIOUSSAT
For many a year after the weary passengers
of the Ark and the Dove had disembarked
at St. Mary's, there to make the first settlement
under the proprietary government of the
Lords Baltimore, the rivers of Maryland ran,
like Mr. George Alfred Townsend's Rappa-*hannock,
"All townless from the mountains to the sea."
The Chesapeake and its almost numberless
tributaries made every plantation accessible to
shipping, and so precluded that concentration
