She still planted and shipped tobacco, but presently found how well she might raise wheat, and that it, too, was valuable to send away in exchange for all kinds of manufactured things.

Thus Maryland began to be a land of wheat still more than a land of tobacco.
For the rest, conditions of life in Maryland paralleled pretty closely those in Virginia.

Maryland was almost wholly rural; her plantations and farms were reached with difficulty by roads hardly more than bridle-paths, or with ease by sailboat and rowboat along the innumerable waterways.

Though here and there manors--large, easygoing, patriarchal places, with vague, feudal ways and customs--were to be found, the moderate sized plantation was the rule.

Here stood, in sight usually of blue water, the planter's dwelling of brick or wood.