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 tobacco and flour, "for which the demand is always sure, and the supply unfailing," and lastly, the energetic spirit of the people.

BELVIDERE, 1786, THE HOME OF COL. JOHN E. HOWARD.

During all this period the city improved in appearance as well as in size. Especially characteristic of the new Baltimore was "Belvidere," the residence of Colonel John Eager Howard. Belvidere was completed in 1794, and only a few years ago was dismantled by the ruthless hand of the city surveyor, to make way for the progress of the ever-expanding city by the extension of North Calvert Street. From Belvidere, which at the beginning of the century was a half-mile from Baltimore, one could look down, as from some mediæval