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 eat twice of terrapin would be held in small repute; as the Londoner is held who at a city banquet does not partake of both thick and thin turtle。  I must; however; confess that the terrapin for me had no surpassing charms。 Maryland was so called from Henrietta Maria; the wife of Charles I。; by which king; in 1632; the territory was conceded to the Roman Catholic Lord Baltimore。  It was chiefly peopled by Roman Catholics; but I do not think that there is now any such specialty attaching to the State。  There are in it two or three old Roman Catholic families; but the people have come down from the North; and have no peculiar religious tendencies。  Some of Lord Baltimore's descendants remained in the State up to the time of the Revolution。  From Baltimore I went on to Washington。


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