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Updated: August 22, 2026

For example, the cost from Philadelphia and Baltimore was given by Arthur Lee, a member of Congress, in 1784 as forty-five shillings a hundredweight, and a few months later it is quoted at sixpence a pound when Johann D. Schoph crossed the mountains in a chaise a feat "which till now had been considered quite impossible."

Archer Butler Hulbert - The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway