Identifier: wildernesstrail02hann (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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about 60 perches over a rich bottomto the foot of a low, steep ridge, on the summit of which, near the declev-ity, stood the upper town, commanding a most agreeable prospect, overthe lower, and quite a cross the Ohio, which is about five hundred yardswide here, and, by its majestic, easy current, adds much to the beautyof the place. The road proceeds beyond Logstown at a small distance from theriver and in some parts in sight of it, through a fine country, interspersedwith hills and rich valleys, watered by many rivulets and covered withstately timber, to Big beaver creek, 25 miles and a half and 56 perchesfrom fort Pitt, and 8 miles from Loggstown. This creek is twenty perches wide, the ford stony and pretty deep.It runs through a rich vale, with a tolerable strong current, its bankshigh, the upland adjoining it very good, the timber tall and young. About a mile below its confluence with the Ohio stood formerly alarge town, on a high steep bank, built by the French, of square loggs,
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