. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. andWashington was convinced that this last channel was themost direct route by which the fur and peltry of the lakescould be transported, while it is, as he added, exceedinglyconvenient to the people who inhabit the Ohio (or Alleghany)above Fort Pitt. In anticipation of this route being selected,Brownsville was, in the spring of 1785, regularly laid out on theMonongahela, near Red Stone Old Fort, which had for someyears become the usual st
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. andWashington was convinced that this last channel was themost direct route by which the fur and peltry of the lakescould be transported, while it is, as he added, exceedinglyconvenient to the people who inhabit the Ohio (or Alleghany)above Fort Pitt. In anticipation of this route being selected,Brownsville was, in the spring of 1785, regularly laid out on theMonongahela, near Red Stone Old Fort, which had for someyears become the usual starting-point for boats carrying emi-grants down the Ohio to Kentucky, and around which landing-place there had grown up a settlement of boat-builders and oftraders in snpplies. A route for which surveys by the new bill were also ordered,and which was more satisfactory to the mass of tide-water Vir-ginians, was by the James River, whence a short portage, saytwenty-five or thirty miles, conducted to New River, and then tothe Kanawha below its falls, and finally to the Ohio. It wason this route that Washington earlier secured some lands, and tf^t^^A-fy. : .••J> • • V ?;& ->?
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