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THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
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ment and are frequently close beside them.

"Look at the map" was practically Forbes's challenge to those who disputed his judgment a century and a half ago when he determined to build a straight road from the heart of the colonies to the strategic key of the Ohio Valley. His wisdom has been triumphantly confirmed in the present generation.