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General Forbes reached Philadelphia by the middle of April but found himself as yet without an army. The raising of the provincials progressed slowly; his Highlanders were not yet arrived from South Carolina; his stores and ammunition had not come from England. However, on May 20, he wrote Bouquet giving orders concerning the formation of magazines and ordered him to contract for one hundred and twenty wagons to transport provisions "backwards to Rays town," and to select at that point a site for a fort. He added: "By all means have the road reconnoitred from Rays town to the Yohageny"—the road Burd had completed to the summit of