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Tecumseh Letter from E. B. Brown to Gen. Joseph Brown
the fortunate finding of a rock large enough and of the proper material for the stones for the mill in a country where, except the small flint boulders, not another rock was to be found, it seemed like another special providence; the effort made to establish local government; the survey and opening of military roads from Detroit and Monroe to Chicago—when the commissioners rode to the top of the highest hill and blowed a horn to guide the surveyor in the direction he was to run the line—a feat in engineering that has not been equaled by any of the engineers of more modern days. The opening of the postoffice and the establishment of a horseback mail route, followed by a two-horse wagon, and afterwards four-horse wagons, and as soon as the increase of travel justified the expenditure, these were replaced by Troy coaches.
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