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Fourthly the dangers incident to a deep and wide ferry -

Fifthly That the road leading by it is more hilly and
circuitous than could be marked out to pass the Clinch at
a very good ford only about two miles above it, and at
this ford the Indians claim the land only upon the North
side, their claim upon the south having been extinguished
by the treaty of Tellico.-

These reasons must convince you, if you did not
already know it, that the people of Tennessee would feel
a great [strange symbol again] grievance removed in the road only being changed
from the ferry to this ford, which is generally passable about
eight months in the year.- Iwould not be understood
by the above observations to give an opinion that this ford
is the place where persons authorised to lay out the road the