Thanks, and also that horses could not so do more than a few days in a row.


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Hugh Howard, author of "Houses of the Founding Fathers", stated at his
presentation at the Library of Virginia on December 6, 2007 that in  18th
century America one could travel about 30 miles per day by horseback and 20
miles per day by coach.

William

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