These "Knights"* set face toward the mountains in August, 1716.

They had guides who knew the upcountry, a certain number of rangers used to Indian ways, and servants with food and much wine in their charge.

So out of settled Virginia they rode, and up the long, gradual lift of earth above sea-level into a mountainous wilderness, where before them the Aryan had not come.

By day they traveled, and bivouacked at night.
* On the sandy roads of settled Virginia horses went unshod, but for the stony hills and the ultimate cliffs they must have iron shoes.

After the adventure and when the party had returned to civilization, the Governor, bethinking himself that there should be some token and memento of the exploit, had made in London a number of small golden horseshoes, set as pins to be worn in the lace cravats of the period.