Leaving the capital city of Kentucky at 8.30 on Thursday morning, I reached
Georgetown, 17 m., just at noon, and tarried for 1 ½ h. at the same
restaurant which I had patronized the previous Friday. I was now again in
the Blue-Grass Region, and my first 2 m. from the State House had led
uphill to a fork in the pike, where the r.-hand road would have led me to
Versailles and Lexington, and so to Paris, – a somewhat less direct
route to that place, of perhaps 37 m. The distance from Georgetown to
Paris
is 16 m., and I reached there at a quarter before 5, having made one short
stop at
Centerville,
7 m. back.
My route from Louisville to Paris had been almost due e.; but I now turned
to the n.e., and kept in that direction to the end, at Maysville. The
Purnell House, in
Millersburg,
where I stopped for the night (which, spite of its age, was the most
comfortable country inn I found in the State) was reached al 6.20
o’clock, and was 8 ¼ m. from my stopping-place in Paris. I was
1 h. 10 min. in doing the distance, which comprised the only level
stretches I found in Kentucky. Otherwise the roads of the day were
continuously hilly, but generally smooth; and the entire distance recorded
was 41 ½ m. The commencement exercises of Georgetown College seemed
to have attracted thereto all the inhabitants of the region roundabout,
giving the place an unwonted bustle and activity; but I was told that the
“graduating class” consisted of only two. Millersburg also
boasts of an institution of similar importance, – the Kentucky
Wesleyan University, – but I neither saw nor heard anything of its
graduation exercises.