"Look at the map" was practically Forbes's challenge to those who disputed his judgment a century and a half ago when he determined to build a straight road from the heart of the colonies to the strategic key of the Ohio Valley. His wisdom has been triumphantly confirmed in the present generation. FOOTNOTES: [1] Affirmation of Shawanese to the Indian trader, John Walker; see Sir John St. Clair's letter, p. 86 ff. [2] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. vi, ch. I. [3] Darlington's _Christopher Gist's Journals_, p. 32. [4] _Id._, pp. 32, 33. [5] _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, vol. v, p. 750. [6] Darlington's _Christopher Gist's Journals_, p. 33. [7] _Id._, (notes), p. 91. Cf. Errett in _Magazine of Western History_, May 1885, p. 53. [8] _Id._, (notes), pp. 91-92. [9] Later the site of Fort Shirley, Shirleysburg, Huntington County. See _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. ii, p. 457. [10] Menchtown, at the foot of Ray's Hill. [11] Mt. Dallas. [12] Bedford. [13] Mile Hill, one mile east of Schellsburg, Bedford County. [14] Buckstown, Somerset County. [15] Quemahoning--"Stoney Creek." [16] Ligonier, Westmoreland County. [17] Delaware Indian village of some twenty huts situated in that part of Pittsburg contained between Penn Avenue, Thirtieth Street and Two Mile Run in the Twelfth Ward, along the shore of the Allegheny. [18] Cf. _Forbes-Bouquet_, pp. 102-108. [19] Proved by comparison with Dana's _Description of the Bounty Lands in the State of Illinois; also the principal Roads and Routes_, pp. 55, 96. [20] For course of Indian path by compass see _Colonial Records_, vol. v, p. 750, 751; for route of state road by compass see _Id._, vol. xvi, pp. 466-477. [21] _Pennsylvania Archives_, vol. ii, p. 132. [22] The branch which left the main trail here led northwest to the Kiskiminitas River and down that river to Kiskiminitas Old Town at Old Town Run, seven miles distant from the Allegheny River. In the survey of the main trail previously referred to (note 20) we read: "N. 64, W. 12 Miles to Loyal Hanin Old Town; N. 20. W. 10 Miles to the Forks of the Road." The discrepancy is so great as to lead one to think there were two routes from "Loyal Haning" to "the parting of the Road." [23] _Pennsylvania Archives_, vol. ii, p, 135. [24] Pennsylvania _Colonial Records_, vol. vi, p. 300. [25] _Id._, p. 302. [26] _Id._, p. 318. [27] _Id._, p. 377. [28] _Id._, p. 403. [29] _Id._, p. 404. [30] Sioussat's "Highway Legislation in Maryland," _Maryland Geological Survey_ (special publication), vol. iii, part iii, p. 136. [31] Pennsylvania _Colonial Records_, pp. 434, 435. [32] _Id._, p. 435. [33] _Id._, p. 431. [34] _Id._, p. 446. [35] _Id._, p. 452. [36] _Id._, pp. 431, 460. [37] _Id._, p. 485. [38] _Id._, p. 493. [39] _Id._, p. 499. [40] For road-cutters' claim of L5000, see Pennsylvania _Colonial Records_, vol. vi, pp. 523, 620-621. [41] _Land Records of Allegheny County, Maryland_, Liber D, fol. 225.