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Roads navigation improvement of, 13, 31, 32; route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, 171.
 * Tennessee, made Virginia boundary, 6, 22.
 * Wabash: Croghan on, in 1765, 2, 56; early navigation of (1765), 59; early acquaintance of explorers with, 7, 165–168; Clark's crossing-place on, 8, 57–58.
 * Youghiogheny: Virginia regiment reaches, 3, 133; Washington explores, 133–134; 7, 63; Braddock arrives at, 4, 115; Braddock crosses, 187; in Washington's plan of communication, 13, 40–50; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal planned along, 85.


 * Rivermen, Ohio, described, 9, 151–188.


 * ROADS—
 * In General: primitive, on watersheds, 1, 66, 79; near ancient mounds, 83–85; remains of, 90–92; made by Indians, 98; military, built on Indian trails, 2, 144–148; modern, an evolution from Indian trails, 149–152; first in the West, 3, 75–77; early French and English westward, compared, 4, 15–29; pioneer, wagons steadied on, 5, 197–198; naming of, 6, 11–13; portage paths as routes of, 7, 75–80; first vehicles to traverse early,