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Rh plied by the northern colonies might take a shorter course than by way of the roads then being opened through Maryland and Virginia. Morris immediately replied " there is no Waggon Road from Carlisle West through the Mountains but only a Horse Path, by which the Indian Traders used to carry their Goods and Skins to and from the Ohio while that Trade remained open." Though Morris usually made requests of the assembly in vain, the request concerning this road was granted, and Morris was empowered, in the middle of March, to open a road "through Carlisle and Shippensburg to the Yoijogain, and to the camp at Will Creek." He immediately appointed George Croghan, John Armstrong, James Burd, William Buchannan, and Adam Hoops to find a road to the three forks of the Youghiogheny—or "Turkey Foot" as the spot was familiarly known on the frontier. On April 29 Burd reported as follows to Morris: " We have viewed and layed out the Roads