From Carlisle to Fort Duquesne by way of Raystown.
| MILES. | |
| From Carlisle to Shippensburg | 21 |
| “ Shippensburg to Fort Loudoun | 24 |
| “ Fort Loudoun to Fort Littleton | 20 |
| “ Fort Littleton to Juniatta Crossing | 14 |
| “ Juniatta Crossing to Raystown | 14 |
| —— | |
| 93 | |
| “ Raystown to Fort Duquesne | 100 |
| —— | |
| 193 |
From Carlisle to Fort Duquesne, by way of Forts Frederic and Cumberland.
| 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 |
| —— | |
| 97 | |
| “ Fort Cumberland to Fort Duquesne | 115 |
| —— | |
| 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.