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Barnes survey of 400 acres discloses it was completed, within a reasonable time there, after for a survey of this acre age, on the 22nd day of July which fell on Saturday. Washinton’s field notes referring to the Barnes survey, followed by the entry “on the second day thereafter accounts for the intervening day of Sunday July 23, 1749, which day a man of Washington’s religious teachings would necessarily have observed before his one-half day journey on Monday, for the purpose of laying off a town in the Blue Ridge mountains. Consistent with the above entry, the reader’s attention is particularly directed to the fact that the town of Wash ington was and is “in a north western direction from Fairfax (now Culpeper) and in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper (now Rappahannock County." Washingon is twenty six miles from the then Fair fax and now town of Culpeper, just such distance as would necessarily have required Washington and his two associates one-half daytonegoti ate on horse-back, the only convenient means of travel during this period of the eighteenth century. Ij is without question and an undenied fact that Washington, Virginia, was and is only town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, of the then
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