northward that we may know the Paths that lead to sidling Hill."
By the last of August all parties concerned were beginning to realize that the young Washington had been telling some plain truth when he urged Forbes not to try this new route. On the twenty-seventh Bouquet wrote St. Clair: "I am extremely disappointed in my Expectation of the Road being open before this time to the foot of Lawrell Hill . . push that Road with all possible dispatch . . the Chief thing we want is the Communication open for Waggons to Loyal Hannon. Employ all your Strength there, and Colonel Burd has order to cut backwards to you from L. Han. . . Capt Dudgeon and Mr Dapt will oversee some Part of the Road, and every body is to stir and make amend for their unaccountable slowness." Bouquet blamed St. Clair for the delay and Forbes wrote him from Shippensburg August 28: "The slow advance of the new road and the cause of it touch me to the quick, it was a thing I early foresaw and guarded again[st] such an assistant with all the force and Energy of words that I was master off,
