[774] Elliott, ii, 21-22.
[775] "In December last, the roads were so intollerably bad that the country people could not bring their forage to market, though actually offered the cash on delivery." (Pickering to Hodgdon; Pickering: Pickering, i, 392.)
[776] Cooper, 1875-86, as quoted in Hart, iii, 98.
[777] Ib.
[778] Watson, 270. Along one of the principal roads of New York, as late as 1804, President Dwight discovered only "a few lonely plantations" and he "occasionally found a cottage and heard a distant sound of an axe and of a human voice. All else was grandeur, gloom, and solitude." (Halsey: Old New York Frontier, 384.)
[779] Hart, iii, 116.
[780] Mag. Western Hist., i, 530.
[781] Justice Cushing to Chief Justice Jay, Oct. 23, 1792; Jay: Johnston, iii, 450.
[782] Memoirs of Talleyrand: Broglie's ed., i, 176-77.
[783] Washington to Jay, Nov. 19, 1790; Jay: Johnston, iii, 409.