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Note—The distances of places from the Mouth of Tobys Creek to Philadundefined are taken wholly from a comparative view of Evan's and Sculls Maps—The number, and length of the Portages, are not attempted to be given with greater exactness than these—and for want of more competent Knowledge, they are taken by a strait line between the sources of the different Waters which by the Maps have the nearest communication with each other—consequently, these Routs, if there is any truth in the Maps, must be longer than the given distances—particularly in the Portages, or Land part of the Transportation, because no Road among Mountundefined can be strait—or