The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

296 WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [iET. 26.
As the par of exchange between Virginia and Pennsylvania is, by the laws of the two provinces, fixed at
twenty-five per cent in favor of the former, I apprehend
we can have no right to settle it on any other footing;
especially as any material deviation might be productive
of very bad consequences.
Since writing the above, the warriors of the party of
Cherokees insisted upon marching instantly, and that
but one white man should go. They are gone, and I
have given the white man the necessary orders relative
to the road.
I am, with great sincerity, Sir, your most obedient
servant.
TO COLONEL BOUQUET.
Camp, near Fort Cumberland, 19 July, 1758.
SIR,
Your obliging favor of this date I just now had the
pleasure of receiving. You flatter me much by coinciding
with me in opinion, relative to the proposed expedition.
Captain Dagworthy returned hither yesterday in consequence of orders from Sir John St. Clair, forwarded
by the commanding officer at Fort Frederic. I will
send out a party on Braddock's road, which I shall be
able to reinforce when Colonel Mercer returns.
I am exceedingly obliged by the handsome and polite manner, in which you are pleased to give me leave
to attend the election at Winchester. Although my being there, under any other circumstances,. would be
* Colonel Mercer had been employed, with a detachment of soldiers, in
opening a road from Fort Cumberland to the camp at Raystown, a distance of thirty miles.