At Washington Baily found that lots to the value of $278,000 had
been sold, although only one-half of the proposed city had been
"cleared." It was to be forty years ere travelers could speak
respectfully of what is now the beautiful city of Washington. In
these earlier days, the streets were mudholes divided by vacant
fields and "beautified by trees, swamps, and cows."

Departing for the West by way of Frederick, Baily, like all
travelers, was intensely interested upon entering the rich
limestone region which stretched from Pennsylvania far down into
Virginia. It was occupied in part by the Pennsylvania Dutch and
was so famous for its rich milk that it was called by many
travelers the "Bonnyclabber Country." Most Englishmen were
delighted with this region because they found here the good old
English breed of horses, that is, the English hunter developed
into a stout coach-horse. Of native breeds, Baily found animals
of all degrees of strength and size down to hackneys of fourteen
hands, as well as the "vile dog-horses," or packhorses, whose
faithful service to the frontier could in no wise be appreciated
by a foreigner.

This region of Pennsylvania was as noted for its wagons as for
its horses. It was this wheat-bearing belt that made the common
freight-wagon in its colors of red and blue a national
institution. It was in this region of rich, well-watered land
that the maple tree gained its reputation. Men even prophesied
that its delightful sap would prove a cure for slavery, for, if
one family could make fifteen hundred pounds of maple sugar in a
season, eighty thousand families could, at the same rate, equal
the output of cane sugar each year from Santo Domingo!