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Rh made possible the making of many maps which pictured the country very much as it was, and a study of these maps proves that many of them are essentially accurate.

Advancing civilization has made the valley and hillside blossom as the rose; the rivers are drained and dredged till they look little as they did a century ago; great chasms have been torn through hill and mountain by the railways—but the summits of some of the hills are left very much as they were. And here on the highlands, which were to the trade and travel of the olden time what our trunk railway lines are to us today, one may follow the serpentine tracks of the pilgrims and armies of the long ago with almost as great accuracy as the tow-path or railway bed in the valley below. For, in addition to having been mapped by many geographers, this region is in part a hilly country with many long watersheds. When a great watershed trail is once located by topographical maps, and