. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. rtals were the sources respec-tively of the Ohio (Alleghany and Monongahela), Kanawha,and Tennessee. The routes converging upon these springswere seven in number. Two of them united at of these, starting from Philadelphia, struck by differentportages the Alleghany River, which was a stream clearer anda little more rapid than the Monongahela, and its current in-creased from two and a half miles an hour to four or five,accordin
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. rtals were the sources respec-tively of the Ohio (Alleghany and Monongahela), Kanawha,and Tennessee. The routes converging upon these springswere seven in number. Two of them united at of these, starting from Philadelphia, struck by differentportages the Alleghany River, which was a stream clearer anda little more rapid than the Monongahela, and its current in-creased from two and a half miles an hour to four or five,according to the state of the water. The other route, whichended at Pittsburg, left Baltimore or Alexandria and passedfrom the Potomac to the Monongahela. It was an attractiveroute. The river had firm banks, and was topped with a varietyof trees, - - button wood, hickory, oak, walnut, sugar-maple, andbeech, — all growing to large sizes for their kind. Wherever THE WESTERN ROUTES. 511 the hills fell back from the stream, it was fringed by fertilebottoms. From Fort Cumberland by wagon to Brownsvillewas eighty miles, and the carrying distance was much less by. PITTSBURG AND WHEELING. [From a General Map of the Course of the Ohio from its Source to its Junction with the Mis-sissippi, in Collots Atlas.] portages to the branches of the Monongahela. Rochefoucault-Liancourt says : Being situated nearer the rivers Youghio-geny and Mocongahel [Monongahela], Baltimore possesses apart of the trade of the back country, if Pennsylvania suppliesmost of the stores. The other routes from Virginia were to the head of Green- 512 WAYNES TREATY AND THE NEW NORTHWEST. brier River and so down the Kanawha to the Ohio; andthrough Cumberland Gap, b}~ the Wilderness Road, as Boonetracked it in 1775, using so much skill in avoiding the water-courses that the modern engineers have put the railroad overmuch the same course. In 1795, the Virginia Assembly passed an act opening a wagon road to Cumberland Gap, appro
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