Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . which the buffalo has been positively valley referred to by Dr. Beck near the top of thepreceding page was Buffalo valley, in Union county. In Watsons Annals, published in 1857, it is statedthat the latest notice of buffaloes nearest to our regionof country is mentioned in 1730, when a gentleman fromthe Shenandoah, Virginia, saw there a buffalo killed of1,000 pounds, and sev
Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . which the buffalo has been positively valley referred to by Dr. Beck near the top of thepreceding page was Buffalo valley, in Union county. In Watsons Annals, published in 1857, it is statedthat the latest notice of buffaloes nearest to our regionof country is mentioned in 1730, when a gentleman fromthe Shenandoah, Virginia, saw there a buffalo killed of1,000 pounds, and several others came in a drove at thesame time. As the Shenandoah valley is an extensionof the Cumberland valley in Pennsylvania it is easily tobe inferred that if buffaloes would come into one valleythey would naturally invade the other. Hence it is alto-gether probable that the bones found by Professor Bairdnear Carlisle were what he supposed them to be, Carlislebeing in the Cumberland valley. The foregoing summary of facts relating to the buffaloabundantly proves its existence in Central Pennsylvaniaas well as in Western Pennsylvania down to a periodcotemporaneous with the close of the Revolutionary 102 PROGRESSIVE PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER X. EARLY TRANSPORTATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. The opening of means of communication between thedifferent parts of Pennsylvania in the early days of itssettlement was slow and often difficult. In the lowlandsalong the Delaware bridle paths followed the lines of In-dian trails, while canoes, skiffs, and small boats were usedon the streams and rivers. Afterwards wagon roads werecut through the forests to meet neighborhood wants, al-though for many years carts and sleds were more gener-ally used on these roads than wagons. When they couldnot be forded streams and rivers were crossed by canoes,skiffs, and rafts, and later by ferries. A ferry over theSchuylkill at Market street, Philadelphia, was in operationin 1685. In time some of the roads were ex
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