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 range, north of Buffalo Gap, and for a part of the year is a torrent, but dries up in summer, as the former does.

Buffalo Branch and Dry Branch come together on land now owned by Alexander B. Lightner, where Thomas Gardiner lived in 1764, when he was killed by Indians. South of this point, and quite near, is the highly improved farm of Theodore F. Shuey. And just there is the most beautiful mountain view to be found in the county. Buffalo Gap is seen in the southwest, a few miles off, the Little North Mountain opened down to its base, and beyond the cleft Elliott's Knob towers up to the clouds.

The excursionist, proceeding along the channel of Dry Branch westward to near the foot of Little North Mountain, will come to the spot where Alexander Crawford and his wife were massacred in 1764.