accommodate the public travel between Lancaster and Philadelphia, and in certain portions of the year, the road, being only a dirt road, was almost impassable. Chief Justice Shippen, writing from Philadelphia to his father, Edward Shippen, of Lancaster, on January 1, 1761, said: "The roads have been so bad

Almanac," which is a larger sized almanac, the following list of road houses and the distances westward between them: "Roads Westward." From Philadelphia to Schuylkill 2 Black Horse 4 Prince of Wales 4 Buck 1 Sorrel Horse 1 Plough 1 Unicorn 3 Blue Ball 4 Ad. Warren 5 White Horse 3 Downing's 7 The Ship 2

OCCASIONED BY A PETITION TO ASSEMBLY FOR A TURNPIKE-ROAD FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WRIGHTS- FERRY ON SUSQUEHANNA, HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE TRUE FRIENDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Having long observed, with real concern, that our Inattention to the Im- provement of Public Roads and other Inland Communications, between the