136 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS. 

 Road through Carlisle. 



Loring's in Groton to Hartwell's 

 Hartwell's to Dupee's 

 Dupee's to Nickles' 

 Nickles' to Porter's 

 Porter's to Simond's 

 Simonds to the forks 



Through Concord 

 Through Carlisle 



From the preceding statement it will be seen that the road from 

 Loring's tavern to Lexington through Concord is 236 rods and a 

 fraction longer than that through Carlisle ; this difference however 

 is less than three quarters of a mile. 



There are eleven public houses on the road through Concord ; 

 and six public houses on the road through Carlisle. 



This measurement of the Carlisle road agrees, within a very few 

 rods, with the measurement of that road by Caleis Butler, Esq. 

 of Groton. If this gentleman had also measured the road through 

 Concord the public would have had a correct statement of the dis- 

 tances. But unfortunately the gentleman, who about that time 

 measured the road through this town, apparently did it with very 

 little accuracy. In one place, namely, from Thompson's tavern in 

 this town to Bigelow's, the short space of fifty '-seven rods, he made 

 a mistake of sixteen rods ; we therefore place little confidence in 

 his measurement of any part of the route. It should be observed 

 that one public house in this town, viz. Mr. Alexander's within a 

 few rods of Mr. Bigelow's was accidentally not mentioned in this 

 measurement of roads. 



JOSIAH DAVIS. 

 PHINEAS HOWE. 

 EBENEZER THOMPSON. 

 STEPHEN PATCH. 

 DANIEL SHATTUCK. 



