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Carea; post village in Harford Comity. 
Caren; village in Harford County. 
Carey; creek, a small tributary of Chop-tank River in Dorchester County. 
Carey; run, a small tributary of Savage River in Garrett County. 
Carlos Junction; station in Allegany County on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 
Carmichael; post village in Queen Anne County. 
Carny; post village in Baltimore County. 
Caroline; county, bounded on the east by the State of Delaware, northwestand west 
by Queen Anne and Talbot counties, and south by Dorchester ( Jounty. The sur- 
face is generally level, though sufficiently undulating to afford good drainage. 
The area is 320 square miles, of which more than two-thirds, or 125,908 acres, 
were under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was 16,248; 
county seat, Denton. The average magnetic declination in the county in 1900 
was 5° 45 7 west. The annual rainfall commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches, 
and the mean annual temperature between 50° and 55°. 
Carpenter; small island in Chester River in Queen Anne County. 
Carpenter; point in Cecil County, projecting into Chesapeake Bay. 
Carr; creek, a small stream flowing into Annapolis Roads in Anne Arundel County. 
Carroll; branch, a small tributary of Gunpowder Falls in Baltimore County. 
Carroll; county, bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, south by How T ard County, 
east by Baltimore County, and west by Frederick County. The surface is mostly 
undulating, watered by fine streams, tributaries of Patapsco and Monocacy rivers, 
which flow from many springs of the purest water. The area of the county is 
437 square miles, of which more than three-fourths, or 227,693 acres, were under 
cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was 33,860. The county 
seat and chief town is Westminster, a town of about 3,200 inhabitants. The 
magnetic declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 30 7 west. Th annual rainfall 
in the county commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches and the mean annual 
temperature between 50° and 55°. 
Carroll; creek, a small tributary of Monocacy River in Frederick County. 
Carroll; point in Baltimore County, projecting into Bush River. , 
Carrollton; post village in Carroll County on the Western Maryland Railroad. 
Carrot; co\e, a small inlet of Northeast River in Cecil County. 
Carsins; run, a small branch of Swan Creek in Harford County. 
Carsins; village in Harford County. 
Carter; creek, a small stream flowing into Chesapeake Bay in Queen Anne County. 
Carthagena; creek, a small tributary of St. Mary River in St. Mary County. 
Carville; station in Queen Anne County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 
ington Railroad. 
Cascade; post village in Washington County. 
Cassidy; wharf on Sassafras River in Cecil County. 
Casson; neck, a strip of land between Hudson and Phillips creeks in Dorchester 
County. 
Castlehaven; village in Dorchester Comity. 
Castleman; river heading in Garrett County and flowing into Pennsylvania into 
Youghiogheny River. 
Castleton; post village in Harford Comity. 
Cat; creek, a small tributary of Patuxent River ir. St. Mary County. 
Cathcart; village in Harford County. 
Catlin; village in Queen Anne County. 
Catoctin; creek, a tributary of Potomac River in Frederick County. 
Catoctin; mountain, a continuation of Catoctin Mountain in Virginia into Frederick 
County. 
