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 OLD COURT-HOUSE (1768) AND POWDER MAGAZINE.

FROM AN OLD PRINT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

the Patapsco was not the first in Maryland to bear the proprietary name. The first Baltimore seems to have been a point of land in St. Mary's County, spoken of only once in the early records, and never again mentioned. A more important predecessor of the Baltimore of to-day was Baltimore upon the Bush, a small river emptying into the head of Chesapeake Bay, not far south of the Susquehanna. "The town-land on Bush River" is mentioned as early as 1669, and, some years later, it was made the seat of the court and court-house of Baltimore County. Though the court