Note 328 — Chapter XVII · FROM TIDEWATER TO THE MOUNTAINS.

“I have often regretted that after so many Years as these Countrys have been Seated, no Attempts have been made to discover the Sources of Our Rivers, nor to Establishing Correspondence w’th those Nations of Indians to ye Westw’d of Us, even after the certain Knowledge of the Progress made by French in Surrounding us w’th their Settlements.” Spotswood, Official Letters, iii. 295. A reconnoissance was made in 1710, which reported that the Blue Ridge was not, as had been supposed, impassable. Id. i. 40.