[804] Boston was not a "city" in the legal interpretation until 1822.
[805] Chastellux, 225. "The difficulty of finding the road in many parts of America is not to be conceived except by those strangers who have travelled in that country. The roads, which are through the woods, not being kept in repair, as soon as one is in bad order, another is made in the same manner, that is, merely by felling trees, and the whole interior parts are so covered that without a compass it is impossible to have the least idea of the course you are steering. The distances, too, are so uncertain as in every county where they are not measured, that no two accounts resemble each other. In the back parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, I have frequently travelled thirty miles for ten, though frequently set right by passengers and negroes." (Ib. Translator's note.)
[806] Smyth, Tour of the United States, i, 102-103.
[807] Watson, 40. "Towards the close of the day I found myself entangled among swamps amid an utter wilderness, and my horse almost exhausted in my efforts to overtake Harwood. As night closed upon me I was totally bewildered and without a vestige of a road to guide me. Knowing the impossibility of retracing my steps in the dark, through the mazes I had traversed, I felt the necessity of passing the night in this solitary desert ... in no trifling apprehension of falling a prey to wild beasts before morning." (Ib.)
[808] Ib.
[809] "I waited at Baltimore near a week before I could proceed on my journey the roads being rendered impassable." (Baily's Journal (1796-97), 107.)
[810] Memoirs of Talleyrand: Broglie's ed., i, 177.
[811] Madison to Jefferson, Dec. 21, 1794; Writings: Hunt, vi, 227.
[812] Madison to Jefferson, Jan. 26, 1795; ib., 230.
[813] "Your favor of July 6 having been addressd to Williamsburg, instead of Orange C. Hose, did not come to hand till two days ago." (Madison to Livingston, Aug. 10, 1795; ib., vi, 234.)