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Rh search of unclaimed tracts of land, or passing to and fro between the distant settlements. To one whose imagination is grounded in the annals of these early days, a walk on one of the old-time thoroughfares is a glimpse backward which, for vividness and meaning, will prove of more inspiration than a year spent in any of the best of our museums.

By Hutchins's old map, drawn for Colonel Bouquet when he led the first English army that ever crossed the Ohio, I found that this thoroughfare I was shown that day crossed through Fairfield and Perry counties from the Scioto valley where the Shawanese lived. It can be found on the upper waters of Wolf creek, in Morgan county, near the Mills Hall farm, and followed over the highland and along the ridge some two dozen rods east of "Eve's Schoolhouse." It passes then through the old Jeremiah Stevens farm on the Harmar and Lancaster road, and from thence over the ridge to the William Pickett farm on the branch of Bald Eagle creek. It follows the hills down Bald Eagle creek valley to the Muskingum. Running out on the hills