[67] "The extreme irregularity which has attended the transmission of newspapers from one place to another for several months past has been a subject of general complaint with the editors of all parties. It was to have been expected that, after the adjournment of Congress, the evil would have ceased to exist. Such, however, is not the case. Although the roads are now pretty good, and the mails arrive in due season, our eastern exchange papers seem to reach us only by chance. On Tuesday last, for instance, we received, among others, the following, viz., _The New York Courier_ and _Enquirer_ of March 1, 5 and 19; the _Philadelphia Times_ and _Saturday Evening Post_ of March 2; the _United States Gazette_ of March 6; and the _New Jersey Journal_ of March 5 and 19. The cause of this irregularity, we have reason to believe, does not originate in this state."--_Ohio State Journal_, March 30, 1833. [68] _Ohio State Journal_, August 9, 1837 [69] It may be found upon investigation that the portions of our country most noted for hospitality are those where taverns gained the least hold as a social institution. Cf. Allen's _The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky_, p. 38. [70] The Virginian House of Burgesses met in the old Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg, in 1773. (Woodrow Wilson's _George Washington_, p. 146.) [71] For advertisement of sale of a Cumberland Road tavern see Appendix D. [72] Mr. Edward P. Pressey in _New England Magazine_, vol. xxii, no. 6 (August, 1900). [73] Grahame's _The Golden Age_, p. 155. [74] "The proper limits of the road are hereby defined to be a space of eighty feet in width--forty feet on each side of the center of the graded road-bed."--Law passed April 18, 1870, _Laws of Ohio_, LVIII, p. 140. [75] Everett's _Speeches and Orations_, vol. i, p. 202. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected. 3. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the main text body. 4. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break. 5. Certain words use an oe ligature in the original. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Historic Highways of America (Vol. 10), by Archer Butler Hulbert