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Portage *Plessis, Bishop, quoted, 7, 100–101.
 * Plumer's, 10, 159.
 * Pogue, William, emigrates to Kentucky, 6, 117.
 * Point Pleasant (West Virginia), Battle of, 6, 86–87.
 * "Point of Rocks," conflict between Baltimore and Ohio Railway and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on right of way at, 13, 115–119.
 * Pollan, Henry, 5, 84.
 * Polls, George, 4, 76, 88.
 * Pond, Capt. Peter, spy among northwestern Indians, 8, 164.
 * Pond, Major, in Harmar's campaign, 8, 88.
 * Pontiac: religious convictions of, 5, 168; arouses Indians, 169; conspiracy of, 170–182.
 * Pope, Ensign, testimony of, 8, 126.


 * PORTAGE PATHS—
 * In General: buffalo traces at, 1, 139; classification of, 2, 53; 7, 23; missionaries traverse, 22; typical experiences of missionaries on, 25–31; explorer's use of, 21, 31–37; New France and Louisiana joined by, 37; meeting-places on, 37–42; circumstances determined routes of, 38–40; camping grounds on, 41–42; alternations of, 42–43; burying grounds near, 43; altars erected on, 43–44; difficulties of,