[141]. Regarding Grant’s defeat, see Harris’s Journal, volume iii of our series, note 30.—Ed.
[142]. For an account of Braddock’s defeat, see F. A. Michaux’s Travels, note 19.—Ed.
[143]. The Louisville-Portland Canal was completed in 1830.—Ed.
[144]. For the Virginia-Pennsylvania boundary, consult F. A. Michaux’s Travels, note 31.—Ed.
[145]. For Wheeling, see A. Michaux’s Travels, note 15; for Grave Creek, see Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 78.—Ed.
[146]. For Chartier River, see Weiser’s Journal, volume i of our series, note 18; for the Little and Big Kanawha, see Croghan’s Journals, op. cit., notes 98, 101; for Fish Creek, see Harris’s Journal, volume iii of our series, note 37.—Ed.
[147]. A brief account of Gallipolis may be found in F. A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series, pp. 182–185. The settlement was not entirely abandoned.—Ed.
[148]. See Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 67, for the early history of Steubenville.—Ed.
[149]. Three Legs town, so called from a famous Delaware Indian, was situated at the junction of Tuscarawas Creek and the Muskingum, near the site of the present Coshocton.
The portage path from the Cuyahoga to the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum, a distance of eight miles, is probably one of the oldest highways in the West, having been the route of the buffaloes across the summit of the state. It formed part of the Indian boundary line in the treaties of Fort McIntosh (1785), Fort Harmar (1789), and Fort Wayne (1795). A road built between these two streams in 1898, followed almost exactly this old portage trail. See Hulbert, “Indian Thoroughfares of Ohio,” in Ohio Archæological and Historical Society Publications, volume viii.—Ed.