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Moravian Church; a Quaker meeting-house; a Court house; a stone Gaol; a Record office, and an Academy.

Hence our journey was through Lancaster, Reading, and Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania; Warwick and Fishkill, in New York; and Farmington and Hartford in Connecticut.

We reached home the beginning of July.

  —"O quid solutis est beatius curis,
Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
Labore fessi, venimus Larem ad nostrum!"


{75} Itinerary

The following directory of the Roads and Distances over the mountains, from Lancaster in Pennsylvania, may be of use to explain some particulars in the preceding Journal, and prove of service to those who may have occasion to make the same tour.[53]

Towns Inns Distances in miles

From Lancaster
  to Big Chickey's Cockran's 9
Elizabeth town Black horse 9
Middletown 9
Chambers' ferry over the Susquehannah 6
Silver springs[54] 8
Carlisle 10
Mount rock Grand Turk 10
Shippensburg 11
Strasburg 11
Over TWO MOUNTAINS to Fannetsburg 7
Over the THIRD MOUNTAIN to Burnt Cabins 4