Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-01-14
(WHttew for the Redoon.)
" HAPPY LAND OF CANAAN
BIZ DON PEDRO.

side OF the Chesapeake Bay and North
Of the Potomac river lies long, mar
row and most beautifully undulating
peninsula, which may well be called
in these times the Happy Land of
Canaan" in some modern senses Of the
phrase at least. The counties of st.
Mary's (of which I shall speak par
ticularly) along with Calvert and
Charles, constitute what we term
Southern Maryland proper. A region
like that of old flowing with milk
and honey"
Where the waters Of the Potomac
and Chesapeake battle for supremacy
this peninsula begins in what is too
we'll known as Point Lookout-known
in the history of our country and
in the memories Of many civil war
soldiers. From this point as focus
the land spreads out, extending
Northwatd along the shores of the
Bay on one side and the Potomac on
the other, until its radiating water
lines eniold Washington, Baltimore,
and finally the whole OF the old State,
from Harpers Ferry to the rock-rib-
bed Susquehanna. The surface is un-
dulating in the full beauty and sense
Of the word, so interspersed with
creeks and rivers, that neither the
Hudson, the classic Rhine, nor the
Grecian Corinth with its Parnassus
hillsides, can far excel the natural
beauty of this slumbering Canaan.
| say slumbering, because its wealth.
its resources and its beauty remain
unappreciated and unimproved to
great extent by its present pop
ulation. Were it in the hands of
some stirring Jsrseymen or Yam
KEGS, whose go-a-head-itive-ness was
only equaled by their sense, capital
and strength, it would soon blossom
like a a rose and be noted for its be-
ing the artificial as we'll as the natu-
raj garden spot" OF MARYLAND.
The soil is good, susceptible of any
Improvement, we'll suited to the cul-
turs Of all kinds Of fruits, vegetables
and cereals grown on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, Maryland, Jersey
or Delaware. A great portion of the
land lays out year after year uncultiva-
ted, and such land as would produce
anything with proper attention. The
climate is very salubrious and healthy,
and when proper care for the laws OF
health are observed sickness is rare.
The climate is we'll suited to all bsr-
ries, fruits, &c, that thrive best in
this latitude. Climate and soil cannot
be claimed BY anyone as drawback
to the material prosperity Of this
Canaan.
The farms are large. and farmers
are impoverishing themselves and
their lands by farming on the old
ante-bellum plan. That Of course
makes the laborers partially depen-
dent upon the land holders for houses
10 live in, and the land owners still
more dependent on the laborers for
work to carry on their farms, and nc
county, no matter how great its natu.
raj facilities. can be fully developed
unless its citizens are apparently in
dependent, and in farmiug district:
independence is best accomplished by
having small farms, aud having then
we'll cultivated. Large farms cut late
small ones. Tenant houses. working
men and plenty OF mules to work with
Is the theory of the age in our truck
ing latitudes. There are numbers o
fine farms in this part of this count!
that are growing up in bushes ant
trees, fences going and gone down
buildings looking delapidated, and ev
erything in sight conveying tc
stranger an Impression of the DE
serted Mansion" Everything show
ing that in dsys long past this was
region Of plenty and maguifesus,