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BALTIMORE AND ITS ENVIllUNS.

H AI.TIMORE, city, and port of entry, Bal-timore co. Md. is on the N. side of I’atapsco r.14 m. from its entrance into Chesapeake bay ;38 m. NK. from \V. 10U SW. from Philadel-phia, 100 SW. from New York , 400 SW. fromBoston , 160 NIO. from Richmond, 230 ESE.from Pittsburg 5!)0 NNE. from Charleston ,f .on. 76° 36' W.; lat. 3J° 17' N. Pop. of the cityand precincts, 1700, 13,503; 1600, 26,415;1810, 46,555; 1820, 62,738, and 1630, 80,625.Baltimore is well situated for commerce. It isconnected by good turnpike roads with variousparts of Pennsylvania , and with the navigablewaters which run into the Ohio . It possessesDie trade of Maryland , and of a great portionof the back country of Pennsylvania , and thewestern states. In amount of shipping, it isthe third city in the Union. It is the greatestflour market in the U. States. In its immedi-ate neighborhood are about GO flour mills, asingle one of which lias produced 32,000 bar-rels in a year. There are also a number ofestablishments for Die manufacture of cloth,cotton, paper, powder, iron, Sic. The city isbuilt around a bay, which sets up from thenorth side of the Patapsco, and affords a spa-cious and convenient harbor. The straitwhich connects the bay with the river is very

narrow, scarcely a pistol-shot across, and itwell defended by Fort M’Henry. A smallriver, called Jones’ Falls, empties into the northside of the harbor, and divides the city intotwo parts, called the town and Fell’s Point,which arc connected by bridges. At Fell’sPoint, the water is deep enough for vessels of500 or 600 tons, but none larger than 200 tonscan go up to the town. Baltimore containsthe state penitentiary; the city and countyalms-house; a court-house; 2 museums; 2theatres; a custom-house; a hospital, in whichthere is a fine collection of anatomical prepa-rations in wax; an exchange, an immense edi-fice of four stories; 5 market-houses; 10banks, 45 houses of public worship, a publiclibrary, a lunatic asylum, an observatory, andseveral elegant public fountains. A marble• monument to the memory of general Wash-ington has been erected on an elevation at thej north end of Charles street. The base is 50feet square, and 23 feet high, on which is an-other square of about half the extent and ele-vation. On this is a lolly column, 20 feet inj diameter at the base, and 14 at the top. Onj the summit of this column, 163 feet from thoground, the statue of Washington placed.

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BALTIMORE EXCHANGE AND MONUMENT.