Note 57 — Chapter VIII · HIS LAST DAYS

Many a “severe contusion” must he have suffered in those primitive days, from upsets and joltings, in driving every year between Richmond and Washington, some 120 miles each way; from Richmond to Raleigh and back, in attending his North Carolina circuit, about 175 miles each way; and between Richmond and Oakhill, his country place, every summer, about 100 miles each way. For instance, in 1812, Cranch, the reporter, remarks that Marshall was not present at the beginning of the term, as he “received an injury by the oversetting of the stage-coach on his journey from Richmond.”