If you keep on going over the mountains England shall lose." "What time can England make with her brigades, west-bound, my friend ?" I asked him casually.

He answered with gratifying scientific precision.
"From Edmonton to Fort Colville, west of the Rockies, it hass been done in six weeks and five days, by Sir George himself.

From Fort Colville down it iss easy by boats.

It takes the _voyageur_ three months to cross, or four months.

It would take troops twice that long, or more.
For you in the States, you can go faster.