road extremely rough and difficult. We were told that our's was the first private carriage that had ever passed it, having been but lately opened, and used only by strong waggons and carts.
We dined at Cannonsburg, a post-town, pleasantly situated on rising ground near the north side of the west branch of Chartier's Creek. It is 18 miles S. W. from Pittsburg, and 9 miles N. E. from Washington. It contains about 100 houses, and has two congregations, and meeting-houses; a Presbyterian and a Seceder. It has been settled but twelve years, and already puts on the appearance of a long cultivated region. There is an Academy here in a very flourishing state; and the last session of the Assembly a charter was granted for a College.[31]
At Washington, the chief town of a county of the same name in Pennsylvania, situated on another branch of Chartier's Creek, we stopped to lodge.
{48} A Court-house and a large building for public offices, of brick; and a Gaol and an Academy, of stone, with a large number of handsomely built dwelling-houses, give this town a very respectable appearance. It seems to be a place of considerable business, and of thriving manufactories and trade.[32]
