The longest known ride by anyone on these trips was done by Marti and I last year- in the rain and it started after noon. Google Maps says it was over 70 miles.Take note of the land use patterns in the farm land surrounding Montréal. It is in strips rather than in rectangular plots. There certainly are no pivot irrigators either. Land, in French settled North American was divided up into thin strips of land that all touched a waterway. Water was the highway the French used to get around, not via horse and "pike" as the British did. This same land settlement pattern can be found in Missouri, Louisiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin; though Jefferson's grid did a lot to obscure it in ensuing centuries.
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