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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAGERSTOWN , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Washington county, See also:Maryland, U.S.A., near See also:Antietam See also:Creek, about 86 m. by See also:rail W.N.W. from See also:Baltimore. Pop. (189o), ro,118; (1900), 13,591, of whom 1277 were negroes; (1910, See also:census), 16,507. Hagerstown is served by the Baltimore & See also:Ohio, the Western Maryland, the See also:Norfolk & Western, and the See also:Cumberland Valley See also:railways, and by an interurban electric See also:line. It lies in a fertile valley overlooked by See also:South See also:Mountain to the E. and See also:North Mountain, more distant, to the W. The city is the seat of Kee See also:Mar See also:College (1852; non-sectarian) for See also:women. Hagerstown is a business centre for the surrounding agricultural See also:district, has See also:good See also:water See also:power, and as a manufacturing centre ranked third in the See also:state in 1905, its factory products being valued in that See also:year at $3,026,901, an increase of 66.3% over their value in 'goo. Among the manufactures are See also:flour, shirts, See also:hosiery, gloves, bicycles, automobiles, agricultural implements, See also:print See also:paper, fertilizers, See also:sash, doors and blinds, See also:furniture, carriages, spokes and wheels. The See also:municipality owns and operates its electric See also:lighting plant. Hagerstown was laid out as a See also:town in 1762 by See also:Captain See also:Jonathan Hager (who had received a patent to 200 acres here from See also:Lord Baltimore in 1739), and was incorporated in 1791. It was an important station on the old See also:National (or Cumberland) Road. See also:General R.

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Lee concentrated his forces at Hagerstown before the See also:battle of See also:Gettysburg. See also:HAG-See also:FISH, GLUTINOUS HAG, or BORER (Myxine), a marine fish which forms with the lampreys one of the lowest orders of vertebrates (See also:Cyclostomata). Similar in See also:form to a See also:lamprey, it is usually found within the See also:body of dead See also:cod or See also:haddock, on the flesh of which it feeds after having buried itself in the See also:abdomen. When caught, it secretes a thick glutinous slime in such quantity that it is commonly believed to have the power of converting water into See also:glue. It is found in the North See also:Atlantic and other temperate seas of the globe, being taken in some localities in large See also:numbers, e.g. off the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Scotland and the See also:west coast of See also:California (see CYCLosTOMATA).

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