Well, the camp-meeting continued a week; people gathered from all parts of the county, and two steamboat loads came from Baltimore.

The ground was happily chosen; seats were arranged; a stand erected; a rude altar fenced in, fronting the preachers' stand, with straw in it for the accommodation of{151} mourners.

This latter would hold at least one hundred persons.

In front, and on the sides of the preachers' stand, and outside the long rows of seats, rose the first class of stately tents, each vieing with the other in strength, neatness, and capacity for accommodating its inmates.
Behind this first circle of tents was another, less imposing, which reached round the camp-ground to the speakers' stand.

Outside this second class of tents were covered wagons, ox carts, and vehicles of every shape and size.