Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-02-07
FOR this GAZETTE.
To a RUsrIc OBSERVER.

10 a RUSTIC OBSERVER.
SIR,
IN your calculations rcrpcaing Berwick,
you have thought ft 70 add Que mile AZ amt
Kennebonk, and to deduct one IN favor Of
Alfred, Doutys ia Is ii Berwick. being the
pace where Norris mill nancs, is aid
down in the map At lean two hundred rods
TOO far Up into the country; but vii hout re-
garding that, or making any allowance for
errors in the map, YOU appear to have calcu-
lated the diitance III the road, according 20
your third rule, 70 fir A. refpccts Alfred.
without app ying the fame to K-unebunk.
The ccutre of population ia Berwick viii "
found IN he road e4ding from Doufvs fails
70 Quampegan, or below Vi. II you take anv
Cation IN that road the direct df4ncs from
u to henncbunk, according 70 the map, will
not he found 70 exceed The direct diitancr ~
Alfred. L you had applied your third rule
70 Kcnnetunk. vel As t0 Alfred. the diff
lerence. according 10 the map, would have
been on y about one n lc; and. had ven
made proper allowance for errors YOU ,vouf1
have found the dilance from Bsrw OK ID AL
fred 10 have exceeded that 70 Kcunebuak-
perhapi ABBOTT one hundred rods.
IN yonr calculation. rttpe4ing the dtfance
from York to Alfred, il is iuppolcd, you have
purlued rhe laa mentioned rule and ID thar
way have favsd about three miles, WITHOUT
any regard to he reprelen alton VI HE select
men Of Alfred for it appears by the map
! thar they have itated the uIltAnce from York
70 Alfred at twenty eight miles, as the fame
was iated by w. but why did you nol DUR
iue the fame role in Eating the diaance fom
York TO Kennebunk Ii that rule i obierv-
ed, you muG not late tie ditfauce from York
10 Kennebunk at more than nineteen n,iles-
! II regard 10 Sanford, YOU have added one
mile TO the rea diAanle from KrnntbunL
According 10 the map the direct daances, and
the dIaances in the roads, arc Tie fame "; n
thole from Kennehuuk 20 Allrtd. j hs dir-
lance from the meeting houie IN Kcnnebunk.
TO the place where Sanford road leaves The "A
road icsding to Berwick, u lh0rt oftso mics.
thence 20 Col. Emery about eight miles, N.
viii appear from the coua.y record, and from
Col Emery's to the meeting homie III Sanford
IS about one ME, amounting in the whole tos
about eleven miles, and no more A., III
paihng ffom kennebuAk to Lebanon and
ShapIeigh, ore NUT pals NY Sanford meeting
houle, you have addr& one nile % the dhance
OF each o! thole towns, and enc mic more 70
the diitance from KennC hunk to Shapltigh I.
which lat miie w IS willing TO allow zen
have ALTO added one mike to The dittsnce froH.
Kennebunk TO Newieid. and dedu6ied rh.ee
miles in favor of Alfred, which W confcsts
10 allow; As Newhed is the Only town IN
| the counry from which direct rout 10 Ken
nehunk would pats hv "A fred meeting houl
Tho he Is not certain Of the proprietv II iuch
\ allow nce rs Il IS lad th1 bStt road leads
| through Shap'eieh. As TO he deducf.on 5f
one miie from Limerick IN lavOr UT Aircd r
ought not 10 be allowed The addition LIZ
! one mile to Coxhal fhaIl he allowed AS ".
\ IN his CA culaginn respecting diAance itora
/ Limineton to Kennebunk, has overlateJ il
one mile, and moderated tile diftance f.r+a
/ Alfred two miles, and, alto has moderated ILL.,.
\ dillauce from Buxton two miles, and PhiIinr-
/ burg one nrie, 10 favor of Alfred; he will
! ing to make All of.et, which will make 10
material alteration in the relative dilances.
! You FAY thar fome allowance ought TO -
made, bee2ufe Ksnnebunl i not ID the cen
ter of Wells and you have added four mIl.s
on that account bur, when you cone ~
calculate the diftance from the center of Wells
to Alfred, you allow only one mile more thai
is allowed TO the center OF Keunebunk. TEt,
is evidently wrong. VS.. calculation 70 FL
as reipccts York was right enough but via
regard 70 Alfred, he IS willing to do thea
| complete JuAice and 70 condder he two ps-
ilhes in Wells rs two diltnd towns, and cal
custe accordingly. Tie fri parifh conts;.s
about two thouisnd one hundred inhabitan
and the meeting houfc in that parili 4 ,be,,,
ieven miles from he meeting houfe in Ker.
| nebunk, rs the road now goes; and fxrcca
miles atleaft from Alfred meeting houIe III.
ieccEd pariih contains about one thoufand fit
| hundred inhabitants, and the mcetne hor.r.
therein y about eleven miles from the meeting
houfe ID Alfred
After making the foregoing concefTions ana
offsets, the ddtances from the feverei towns
N the county without infiling upon trialJ,
| will be as follows, viz.