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Rh the Ohio, an explorer asked an old resident to describe its course. "From Parkersburg," said the informant, "it goes on to Ewing's Station, Turtle Run, and Kanawha Station; it goes over Eaton's Tunnel, follows Dry Ridge into Dodridge county and passes through Martin's Woods, just north of Greenwood, to Center Station where it turns east, crossing Gorham's Tunnel, and goes down Middle Island Creek."

"The Indians must have patronized the railroad well," observed the student, "since their trail passes by all the stations and tunnels."

"Law, no," broke out the disappointed old man, "they wa'n't no railroad them days, but when they come to build it they follered the trail the hull way." It is nothing less than wonderful that the old highway selected by the instinct of the bison should be found in two instances, in a space of twenty miles, immediately above the railway tunnel.

Other strategic lines of travel perhaps first opened by the buffalo were the portage paths between the heads of streams, especially those of the Ohio basin and the lake