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74 While lacking the definiteness usual in a preliminary presentation, there is something gained in instant prospective offered by the foregoing tables. Consider them briefly in the order given.

The Old Connecticut Path ran from Boston and Cambridge through Marlborough, Grafton, Oxford, Springfield, to Albany, the capital of New York. A portion of the course was covered by the historic Bay Path at Wayland, Massachusetts, and ran through Worcester and rejoined the Old Connecticut Path, east of Springfield. A parallel path was known as the New Connecticut Path which started at Cambridge and ran through Worcester to Albany.

The Bay Path is best known. In Holland's novel bearing that title is a description which should be preserved:

"It was marked by trees a portion of the distance and by slight clearings of