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Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
Continuing our trip from New York to Washington, we take up the journey at Westminster for the run thence in Baltimore. The road is a turnpike of limestone, as are most of the important roads in that part of the country. It is moderately level nearly all the way, and there is little difficulty in keeping to it on this particular stretch of the trip. Leaving Westminster you pass out of town under the railroad, and start out at once on the turnpike for Carrolton, taking care to take the left fork a little less than a mile out. From Carrolton through Sandyville to Finksburg, and thence to Reisterstown the way is direct and unmistakable, there being almost no road of an equal importance to the main pike, and therefore little opportunity for any one to get off the route. This makes up a run of about fourteen miles over an easy road, and you are strongly advised, therefore, not to make much of a stop here, but to run on to Pikesville at least, unless the company happens to be made up partly of women, when a stop may to advantage be made here, and another at Pikesville or Howardsville.
From Reisterstown the pike runs almost due southeast five miles to Greenspring Junction, and then two miles further on to Pikesville. Keeping straight on over a remarkably good road in pleasant weather, you pass through Howardsville less than two miles further, and finally bring up in Arlington, twenty-four or twenty-five miles from Westminster. If no stop is to be made at Baltimore, and the rider determines to include this run and the next day's run in one twenty-four hours, he should take the right fork here, and follow the road marked like a barber's pole on the map. For many reasons, however, it is better to go on, because Baltimore is a good and comfortable place to put up at, especially if you go to the Carrolton; and should you be making the trip in quicker or longer stages than we have been doing, you should make it a point to reach Baltimore at night, instead of putting up at Westminster.
Proceeding then from Arlington along the railroad, the rider soon comes in to Druid Hill Park, and through or along the edge of this enters the city, where it is easy to make his way to the centre of the town and reach the Carrolton.