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 was bought of the Indians at prices satisfactory to the latter.

It was not long before the chain of settlements extended from Mortonia bey ond the high plateau forming the watershed between the Potomac and the streams which flow northward into the Ohio, and descended to those streams. It was now decided to prepare to remove the capital of Aristopia from Mortonia to a point beyond the mountains. A new city (named Morgania in honor of a prominent official of the colony) was laid out on the middle one of the three large streams between the head of the Potomac and the Ohio. At this site was a fine waterfall with an ample volume of water to turn many mill-wheels. The valley was broad and fertile enough to support a large agricultural population. The ranges of mountains, or hills, which bounded the valley were full of iron ore and coal, although the value of the latter was little known at that time. But there was timber enough to make charcoal to smelt iron for a nation.

Soon after the site of this future capital was laid out and its settlement begun, a chain of trading-posts from the Ohio to the great river was established. The first one, called