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| | Talbot County, Maryland Directory - 1878 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | TALBOT COUNTY occupies a central position among the Eastern Shore counties, being immediately on the bay shore, and bounded southerly and south.easterly by the Choptank River and Tuckahoe Creek, the former separating it from Dorchester and the latter from Caroline County. |
 | | Talbot has a healthy, mild climate, (being tempered by the surrounding waters,) and is considered by its enterprising citizens as the garden spot of this section. |
 | | The Maryland and Delaware R. R., running from Oxford on the Treadhaven River, to Clayton, Delaware, 54 miles, with the numerous steamers, sailing vessels, and other smaller craft, which traverse the adjacent waters, give to this county facilities for cheap transportation not excelled by any other county in the State. |
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