In this MEMOIRE, together with portions of Washington's _Journal_ appear papers, instructions, etc., captured at Braddock's defeat in 1755. Of the portion of Washington's _Journal_ published, Washington himself said: "I kept no regular one (Journal) during the Expedition; rough notes of occurrences I certainly took, and find them as certainly and strangely metamorphised, some parts left out which I remember were entered, and many things added that never were thought of, the names of men and things egregiously miscalled, and the whole of what I saw Englished is very incorrect and nonsensical." The last entry on the _Journal_ is on June 27th, six days previous to the battle of Fort Necessity. [6] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754,_ pp. 43, 44. [7] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754,_ p. 65. [8] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754_, p. 63. [9] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754_, pp. 90-97. [10] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754_, p. 127. [11] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754_, p. 101. [12] Toner's _Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754_, pp. 157-158. [13] _History of Cumberland_, p. 76. [14] _The Monongahela of Old_, p. 53. [15] _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. ii., p. 32. [16] _Writings of Washington_ (1837), vol. i., p. 54. [17] _Monongahela of Old_, pp. 52-53. [18] _Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania_, vol. ii., p. 31. [19] Craig's _History of Pittsburg_, p. 104. [20] Craig's _History of Pittsburgh_, p. 226. It is interesting to note that Pittsburg was on the direct mail route to Kentucky--Boone's old route through Cumberland Gap not being a mail route. [21] _United States Statutes at Large_, vol. ii., p. 173. [22] _United States Statutes at Large_, vol. ii., p. 226. [23] _Senate Reports_, 9th Cong., Sess., Rep., No. 195. * * * * * 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. 6. Carat character (^) followed by a single letter or a set of letters in curly brackets is indicative of subscript in the original book. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Historic Highways of America (Vol. 3), by Archer Butler Hulbert