. Down the eastern and up the Black . vent his prayers that the court will con-sider his age—that he is become so corpulent that he cannotbow or stoop to avoid the Limbs of Trees that hang over theroad—his unwieldiness rendering him liable to be torn by saidlimbs of trees from his horse, and that he has several times inconsequence thereof nearly lost both life and limb. The infirmities that wait on corpulency, ought to have ap-pealed most strongly to the conscience of the Court. Those that can pity, hereMay if they think it well let fall a tear ;The subject will deserve it. I blus
. Down the eastern and up the Black . vent his prayers that the court will con-sider his age—that he is become so corpulent that he cannotbow or stoop to avoid the Limbs of Trees that hang over theroad—his unwieldiness rendering him liable to be torn by saidlimbs of trees from his horse, and that he has several times inconsequence thereof nearly lost both life and limb. The infirmities that wait on corpulency, ought to have ap-pealed most strongly to the conscience of the Court. Those that can pity, hereMay if they think it well let fall a tear ;The subject will deserve it. I blush for Londongrove—but this is a digression—let mecome back to the Paxtang Road. Divers swamps was one of the objections urged against same objection had been previously made to another Pro-vincial road running to Nutts Furnace ; but here again Nant-mel is to be congratulated, for we find the inhabitants of NewLondon about the same time, protesting against the confirmationof a road and giving as ye reason that there are fifteen [ 74. OlK H(iAI> UlsKS CiCHKIV. l:i.!.C 711. swamps that said road leads across. The climax, however, wasreached in another township, where at the instigation of oneman the jury were induced to so far vary from the propercourse that they brought the road to a prodigious swamp—even such a swamp that the jury themselves didnt choose toRun the Risque to Ride through it, but was obliged to quit theirhorses and climb along the fence to get over it. Imperfect as the Provincial and other public roads were byreason of their narrowness and incumbrances, they were de-cidedly preferable to the bridle paths and roads on sufferance,which were continually subject to alteration, so that people wereconstantly subjected to disappointment, not knowing when theyset out in the morning by what crooked route they might becompelled to return at night. New settlements, complainsone, renders our journeys very difficult and dangerous, byreason of the intricate
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