The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones . the village of During the day we passed many mountainsand steep declivities along the said Conchake River, which we followednearly all the time. It may be from twenty to twenty-five toises rain had caused its waters to rise; it is rather rapid. Our route wasnearly always and we traveled at least seven or eight noticed that the buds were beginning to come out on th
The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones . the village of During the day we passed many mountainsand steep declivities along the said Conchake River, which we followednearly all the time. It may be from twenty to twenty-five toises rain had caused its waters to rise; it is rather rapid. Our route wasnearly always and we traveled at least seven or eight noticed that the buds were beginning to come out on the sassafrastrees. 30th, Sunday. Easter Sunday. At half-past eight we started;and camped at half-past five. At noon we left the Riviere de Nager-reconnan and followed a stream2 until 4 oclock when we ascended ahigh mountain, after which we followed a stream running east by north- 1 It was located one to three miles east of the Forks of the Muskingum on thenorth side. The Mohican or Walhonding (Conchake) and the Tuscarawas (Naguer-reconnan) unite at the Forks to form the Muskingum River, where Coshocton is nowbuilt. 2 White Eyes Creek in Coshocton 11.—12 178 The Wilderness Trail. The one we left at 4 oclock follows the same direction, but wewere going up it while we were descending the last Our route wasnearly always E. by Here is a figure of todays route [No. 39]. Icalculate that we traveled 8^ leagues. We had snow and hail all sun did not come out. Nevertheless we Conchake is a place where the Hurons [Wyandots] took refuge during the war [1747-48]; 120 of them diedin one summer. Onecan still see the gravesand ithe vestiges of thevillage that stood therethen. At present thereare only two cabins, one of which is occupied by a Christian savagefrom Sault St. Louis who has been there a long^ The otherbelongs to the Five Nations. Tegana-Koissin lent me a horsefor my journey to Fort Duquesne without specifying any price. He w
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