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Baltimore, as a home, is one of the most delightful cities in the world. It possesses more solid advantages than any other city on the Atlantic seaboard for those desirous of establishing themselves in a great metropolis, for purposes of trade, commerce, or business of any description. Situated about the centre of the Atlantic coast, at the head of the great Mediterranean Sea of America, it is equally removed from the intense cold of northern latitudes, and the blinding heat of our more tropical sisters of the South. An equable climate, soft, balmy, salubrious, and almost entirely free from the

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dense fogs which are the horror of the generality of cities adjacent to the seaboard, gives to it that healthy mean, which is seldom present along any of the water courses of this country or Europe. Its mild winters usually furnish ice enough for home consumption, I gathered during the cold snaps that occasionally occur; while the pleasant bracing weather, which prevails during many weeks of that season, gives abundant opportunities for outdoor labor, the use of hydraulic power and navigable water, and demands far less fuel than is required in cities further north. Located upon a small but beautiful river Baltimore, 3