Length of a Pacem, Etc.

Mentioned the forwarded arrangement proposed by Col. Butler for the completion of his regiment and the travel of detachments to meet Gen. Wilkinson, received Hamilton's changes to the arrangements. Provisionally appointed Capt. Beatty as Division Quartermaster, will require necessities and money for those expenses. Pinckney has, at Hamilton's request, conducted experiments on the length of a pace and has concluded that the present step of two feet is a more natural pace for a man of medium height.