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116 highways of travel. They are thus described by some early writers:

"The roads opened by these animals may be reckoned among the national curiosities of the state [Kentucky], being generally wide enough for a carriage or waggon way, in which trees, shrubs, etc., are all trampled down, and destroyed by the irresistible impetus of the mighty phalanx."

Croghan wrote in his Journal (1765): "We came to a large road which the buffaloes have beaten spacious enough for a wagon to go abreast, and leading straight into the Lick."

In the MS. autobiography of General James Taylor of Newport, Kentucky, is found this statement "Big Bone Lick has been a great resort of the buffalo, and the roads  were larger than any common ones now [1794] in the State, and in many places were worn five or six feet deep."