The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Moccasin Gap. Kanes (lap The General Course and Features of the Road [61] practicable entrance to Kentucky from the Southwest, he cannotfail to be impressed with the topographical instinct and engineeringintelligence of the first travelers. Speed says justly of Boonesjudgment in laying off the road to Boonesborough: It requireda mind of far more than ordinary calibre to locate through more thantwo hundred miles of mountain wilderness a way of travel, which,for one hundred years, has remained practically unchanged, andupon which the
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Moccasin Gap. Kanes (lap The General Course and Features of the Road [61] practicable entrance to Kentucky from the Southwest, he cannotfail to be impressed with the topographical instinct and engineeringintelligence of the first travelers. Speed says justly of Boonesjudgment in laying off the road to Boonesborough: It requireda mind of far more than ordinary calibre to locate through more thantwo hundred miles of mountain wilderness a way of travel, which,for one hundred years, has remained practically unchanged, andupon which the state has stamped its approval by the expenditure ofvast sums of money appropriated for its improvement. The topographical intelligence used in the location of theoriginal road to Kentucky is illustrated even better by the way inwhich the present railroads follow its course. Between the head-waters of the Holston and Central Kentuckv thev have found noother route. If one takes a through car from Bristol, Tenn., to Louis-ville, Kv., he follows for nearlv the entire distan
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