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Excerpt from Maryland and Its Natural Resources The western boundary of the State has not been finally settled. According to the early grants, this line should run due north from the head of the Potomac River. The North Branch was early regarded as the head of the river, but later surveys show that the South Branch is longer than the North Branch. The Fairfax Stone supposed to be placed at the westernmost source of the North Branch has been recently shown not to be at the head of that stream. Its real source is about one mile farther west, and this point has been recently marked by the State of Maryland with a monument known as the Potomac Stone. The questions at issue are now before the Supreme Court of the United States. The extreme width of the State from east to west is 240 miles, and the extreme length from north to south 125 miles, the latter, however, narrow ing toward the west where it becomes less than three miles at Hancock. Beyond this point it again broadens. The total area within the limits of the State is estimated at square miles, of which square miles are land. The remaining square miles are water, distributed as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.