[98] The site of Fort Hamilton was in the present city of Hamilton, Ohio, and was described in 1875 as located on the ground reaching from Stable Street to the United Presbyterian Church, and stretching from the Miami River eastward to the site of the Universalist Church. [99] _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 173. [100] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ix, ch. 2. [101] _American State Papers_, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 245. St. Clair had ordered Butler to proceed in three parallel paths each ten feet in width. [102] Everts's _Atlas of Butler County, Ohio_, p. 23. [103] _History of Preble County, Ohio (1881)_, p. 19. [104] _St. Clair Papers_, vol. ii, p. 252. [105] _St. Clair Papers_, vol. ii, p. 247. This letter may have been written at Fort Hamilton. [106] St. Clair's _Narrative_, p. 32. It is difficult to harmonize St. Clair's own words concerning the width of the roadway with those of the editor of _The St. Clair Papers_, vol. ii, p. 292, note. [107] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. v, p. 144. Cf. Harmar's order of march p. 96. [108] St. Clair's _Narrative_, p. 31. [109] _Id_., p. 32. [110] _The St. Clair Papers_, vol. ii, pp. 251, 262. [111] St. Clair's _Narrative_, p. 210. [112] _The St. Clair Papers_, pp. 254, 255. [113] St. Clair wrote Hodgdon regarding supplies as follows: "Forty-five thousand rations of provisions should move with the army; ... twice in every ten days forty-five thousand rations should move from Fort Washington to the next post, until three hundred and sixty thousand rations were sent forward; ... forty-five thousand rations should again move with the army from the first post to a second, and an equal number twice in every ten days until the residue of the three hundred and sixty thousand were carried forward, and so on from post to post, still moving with forty-five thousand rations. They have failed entirely in enabling me to move with forty-five thousand rations, and from the letter above mentioned, the agent seems not to expect to move any beyond this place; for he says: 'If you move from thence (meaning this place) shortly, and take ten days' provisions with you, it will deprive us of the means to transport what may be necessary after that is exhausted.' After, then, that you know _exactly_ what the contractors can do as to transportation, (for so far as they can do it, it is their business, and must not be taken out of their hands) you will take your measures so, as that, on the 27th instant, I may be able to move with three hundred horse-loads of flour, and that one hundred and fifty horse-loads succeed that every seven days; one hundred and fifty horses being sent back every seven days. For whatever expense may attend the arrangement, this shall be your warrant; and I am certain, from your personal character, as well as from your zeal for the public good, that no unnecessary expense will be incurred. It is to be observed, that our beef will be