Historic Highways of America by Archer Butler Hulbert

Author:Archer Butler Hulbert [Hulbert, Archer Butler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

DISTANCE IN MILES.

From Carlisle to Shippensburg 21

" Shippensburg to Fort Loudoun 24

" Fort Loudoun to Fort Littleton 20

" Port Littleton to Juniatta Crossing 14

" Juniatta Crossing to Raystown 14

Total: 93

" Raystown to Fort Duquesne 100

Total: 193

From Carlisle to Fort Duquesne, by way of Forts Frederic and Cumberland.

DISTANCE IN MILES.

From Carlisle to Shippensburg 21

" Shippensburg to Chambers's 12

" Chambers's to Pacelin's 12

" Pacelin's to Fort Frederic 12

" Fort Frederic to Fort Cumberland 40

Total: 97

" Fort Cumberland to Fort Duquesne 115

Total: 212

" From this computation there appears to be a difference of nineteen miles only. Were all the supplies necessarily to come from Carlisle, it is well known, that the goodness of the old road is a sufficient compensation for the shortness of the other, as the wrecked and broken wagons there clearly demonstrate.

". From what has been said relative to the two roads, it appears to me very clear, that the old one is infinitely better, than the other can be made, and that there is no room to hesitate in deciding which to take, when we consider the advanced season, and the little time left to execute our plan."

But Forbes 's letter of the thirty-first was decisive, and, following his orders, Colonel Bouquet began cutting a new road westward from Raystown August 1.

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