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Potomac; station in Allegany County on the Baltimore and Ohio and the West Vir- 
ginia Central and Pittsburg railroads. 
Potter; creek, a small tributary of Potomac River in St. Mary County. 
Powell; landing on Wye River in Talbot County. 
Powellsville ; post village in Wicomico County. 
Powhatan; village in Baltimore County. 
Pratt; post village in Allegany County. 
Preston; post village in Caroline County on the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic 
Railway. 
Prettyboy; branch, a small tributary of Gunpowder Falls in Baltimore County. 
Price; creek, a small tributary of St. Mary River in St. Mary County. 
Prices; post village in Queen Anne County. 
Priceville; village in Baltimore County. 
Prickly; point in Somerset County, projecting into Manokin River. 
Priests; point in St. Mary County, projecting into St. Mary River. 
Prince Fredericktown; county seat of Calvert County. 
Prince George; county, organized in 1645, is bounded on the northeast and east by 
Patuxent River, south by Charles County, west by Potomac River, and on the 
northwest by the District of Columbia and Montgomery County. The surface 
is rolling and well supplied with springs and running streams flowing into the 
two bordering rivers. The area is 482 square miles, of which more than one-half, 
or 174,273 acres, was under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same 
year was 29,898. The county seat is Upper Marlboro. It contains also the towns 
of Hyattsville and Laurel, with populations 1,222 and 2,079 respectively. The 
average magnetic declination in the county in 1900 was 4° 50' west. The annual 
rainfall commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches, and the mean annual tem- 
perature between 50° and 55°. 
Princess Anne; county seat of Somerset County on the New York, Philadelphia 
and Norfolk Railroad. Population, 857. 
Principio; creek, a small tributary of Furnace Creek in Cecil County. 
Principio Furnace; post village in Cecil County. 
Principio Station; station in Cecil County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and 
Washington Railroad. 
Probasco; landing on Wye River in Talbot County. 
Prospect; bay, a small arm of Eastern Bay in Queen Anne County. 
Prospect; village in Harford County. 
Protestant; point in St. Mary County, projecting into Breton Bay. 
Providence Mill; post village in Cecil County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Pry; cove, a small inlet of Holland Straits in South Marsh in Somerset County. 
Pry; small marshy island in Holland Straits in Somerset County. 
Pumphrey; village in Anne Arundel County on the -Baltimore and Annopolis Short 
Line Railroad. 
Punch; point i» Talbot County, projecting into Eastern Bay. 
Punch Island; creek, a small tributary of Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County. 
Pung-ers; small creek in South Marsh in Somerset County tributary to Holland 
Straits. 
Purdum; post village in Montgomery County. 
Purnell; bay, an arm of Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County. 
Purnell; point in Worcester County, projecting into Chincoteague Bay. 
Purnell; pond in Worcester County drained by Pattys Branch, a tributary of Poco- 
moke River. 
Purnell; pond, an inlet of Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County. 
Purslane; run, a small tributary of Potomac River. 
Pusey; branch, a small tributary of Dividing Creek in Worcester County. 
