After breakfast I walk’d out, and in the vicinity of the city pick’d  up some minerals. I went to a third Apothecary and bought a dose of Jalap and Nitre which I took immediately.—I soon experienced the good effects of its operation, and, after I had drunk some tea, felt the truth of the observation that Pleasure consists chiefly in relief from pain.—How insipid would Life be without intervals of pain, care, anxiety and disappointment!
   21st. This is a place of great business; --so busy are the people that they have not yet had time to put up at the corners the names of the streets. The town is not yet incorporated, although it has often been propos’d in the Assembly—so great is the spirit of Democracy which reigns here.—
   I spent most of the forenoon in walking about the town. From a bank opposite the bay I collected some specimens of iron ore which appears to form a stratum at the depth of a foot or two under the town and all the adjacent country. Contiguous to it are beds of red ochre in many places.
   After dinner I took a walk with a young man who lodges at the same house with me, and view’d the works and machinery of a mill. I spent the remainder of the afternoon in walking about. Follow’d the course of a stream call’d Jones’s Falls,