The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . he Monthly Journal of Geology of February,183-2, A more probable explanation, therefore, is that the pioneerfound it necessary to go around the mountain rather than throughthe tunnel, and the few travelers who kept journals of their trips overthe road were too much occupied with the affairs of the road to payattention to objects which did not directly concern them. When the road had gotten up Stock Creek to the present pointof Hortons Summit it had surmounted Purchase Ridge which endswitli the gorge of Stock Creek. In going around P
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . he Monthly Journal of Geology of February,183-2, A more probable explanation, therefore, is that the pioneerfound it necessary to go around the mountain rather than throughthe tunnel, and the few travelers who kept journals of their trips overthe road were too much occupied with the affairs of the road to payattention to objects which did not directly concern them. When the road had gotten up Stock Creek to the present pointof Hortons Summit it had surmounted Purchase Ridge which endswitli the gorge of Stock Creek. In going around Purchase Ridgein this wav the road had a difficult climb, but it had avoided theJiardcr climb which is involved in going over Purchase Ridge. I havecrossed directly over Purchase Ridge, to Pattonville, and I can testifyto the fact that it is a difficult and steep climl). The next landmark on the road was Little Flat Lick which waslocated a few liundred yards east of the present Dufheld licks were always points of great importance to the pioneer. Little Flat Lick 1 The Detailed Location of the lload [1^1] travelers: First, because the game, which frequented them, madepaths along the natural routes to the licks, of which the pioneersavailed themselves; and, second, because they afforded the pioneersthe easiest opportunities for getting the game which they relied uponfor food on their journeys. The licks on the road were all importantlandmarks to the pioneers. There was the Big Lick or the GreatLick on the road between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghen3^s atRoanoke, Va.; Little Flat Lick was here at Duffield, and in Kentuckythere was Flat Lick near the railroad station at present called FlatLick on the road midway l)etween Pineville and Barbourville. Thelocation of Boonesborough itself was in part determined by the exist-ence in the hollow there of a mineral spring which made one of theselicks. These licks, of so nuich interest to the pioneer traveler, haveno indication
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