First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md. Rise And Progress
First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md. Rise And Progress
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The location was peculiarly favorable to com- merce, presenting the nearest market to the western country, which was then gradually filling up, and concentrating a great proportion of the trade of the Chesapeake. The geological features of the coun- try around these head waters of the bay were found, moreover, most admirably adapted to the employ- ment of water power. The streams running into the Chesapeake at this point are numerous, and as the country gradually rises in successive ridges, the... waters fall rapidly in their progress to the bay. So remarkably is this the case in this neighborhood, that several of the principal streams were denom- inated by the £■ t settlers Falls ; as Jones* Falls, Gwynn's Falls, 8.c, It has been asserted that there is no equal space of ground in the United States that has more natural water power, united with so many local facilities, as the circle of thirty miles radius about Baltimore. From the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico there are very few in comparison ; and this Digitized by Google 40 is true, to a great extent, throughout the West.* In connection with this advantage of location, we may notice that in 1793, when the revolution in St.
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