[42] _Id._, p. 561. [43] See Davies's Sermon, _Virginia's Danger and Remedy_, (Glasgow, 1756) 2d ed., p. 6; Cort's _Colonel Henry Bouquet_, p. 74; London _Public Advertiser_, October 3, 1755; _Bouquet au Forbes_, July 31, 1758, p. 113; "I know of only one remedy for the frightful indolence of the officers of these provinces, which would be to drum one out in the presence of the whole army"--_Bouquet au Forbes_, July 1758; _Bouquet Papers_, 21, 640, fol. 95. Bury: _Exodus of the Western Nations_, vol. ii, pp. 250-251. [44] Pennsylvania _Colonial Records_, vol. vi, p. 503. [45] _Morris to Braddock_, July 3, 1755. [46] _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. i, pp. 4, 5. [47] Cabins fortified by their owners and neighbors. [48] _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. i, p. 558. [49] Braddock's Road cannot be considered as a wagon road at this time; long before hostilities had ceased it had become impassable for wagons. [50] _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. i, p. 536. [51] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ii, p. 85. [52] _Pennsylvania Archives_, vol. iii, p. 119. [53] Parkman: _Montcalm and Wolfe_, vol. ii, p. 41. [54] _Montcalm and Wolfe_, vol. ii, p. 132. [55] See note 60. [56] This, as with all succeeding quotations from the correspondence of Bouquet, Forbes, and St. Clair, was copied by the writer from the originals in the _Bouquet Papers_ in the British Museum. [57] The main route westward was, the year before, in poor condition between Philadelphia and Bedford. _Loudon to Denny_, Pennsylvania Archives, iii, pp. 278-279. [58] _Forbes to Pitt_, October 20, 1758. [59] By Hildreth and others. [60] _Forbes to Governor Denny_ (of Pennsylvania), March 20, 1758: Pennsylvania Records, N, p. 206. [61] Note 43, first reference. [62] Cf. _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iv, p. 192. [63] Fort Frederick-Fort Cumberland route. [64] Braddock's Road. [65] Sparks: _Writings of Washington_, vol. ii, p. 295. [66] _Id._, p. 298. [67] Bouquet never exaggerates the difficulties that would attend Forbes if he chose to march by Fort Cumberland. [68] Sparks: _Writings of Washington_, (1834) vol. ii, p. 300, note. [69] Quotations from Washington's correspondence can be identified by dates in Sparks's _Writings of Washington_. [70] _Forbes to Bouquet_, August 28, 1756. [71] Sparks: _Writings of Washington_ (1834), vol. ii, p. 308, note.