Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Chesapeake Bay. [ARTICLE]

Chesapeake Bay.

Few people fully appreciate the great size of the Chesapeake bay. It is the largest Mentation on the Atlantic coast, and ft has often been called the Mediterranean of America. On its bosom the navies of the world could easily float. It is 200 miles long, and in some places it is forty miles broad. It has an area of over 2.000 square miles, and it shoots off into great rivers with an aggregate length of thousands of miles. Baltlmprs American. - ’ I