Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE EASTERN SHORE AND THE CHESAPEAKE "/" I "Mm LAND OF GENTLEMEN" is one of the I popular names for the water-bound Eastern -- Shore of Maryland and Virginia between the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware and Atlantic Ocean —a region of romance and beauty, and Americans who can be sure of ancestors who came from England long ago. There are a few easy approaches to the land of fertile farms and shifting sands. First there is the steamer from Baltimore down the Chesapeake. It is to be hoped that the steamship company will plan a day schedule for the pleasure of those who wish to study the curiously indented shore past Annapolis and the mouths of the Patuxent and the Potomac, along the limits of the peninsula of Tidewater Virginia on the west and the curious but important appendage to Virginia on the east. Then there is the train through the heart of the Eastern Shore. First there is a bit of Maryland, where orchards and green fields surround Salisbury and Princess Anne, quaint towns whose shaded streets and comfortable, old-time houses tell the traveler who is not in a hurry that he ought to stop and test the hospitality of people who have not forgotten the traditions of other days. Then come the counties of the Accomac Peninsula, the many bays and creeks, the pines, and the sand dunes that are in almost ceaseless motion because of the breezes, first from the Atlantic, then from the Chesapeake. Through these is the best route to enter the country of the Chesapeake—after due pause at Chincoteague or Accomac or Eastville, or others of the old-time towns and villages along the way, there to absorb some of the delights of this region to which so few turn their steps except to rush through to the resorts about the lower Chesapeake. Of the four centers of gre...