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122 behind Stockport, it takes to the summit of Wallace Ridge, which it follows to Roxbury and "Big Rock."

From "Big Rock"—a noted landmark which stood in the Muskingum river near the present railway "cut" north of Lake Chute—the old trail strikes south for the Ohio river. Crossing the ridge, it came down to the west branch of Wolf creek at the mouth of Turkey Run, went through the George Connor farm and Quigley Flats to the south branch of Wolf creek, which it crossed two miles above the junction of the forks; thence due south on the watershed to the Ohio opposite the mouth of the Little Kanawha (Belpre, Ohio).

Here it joined another trail which came eastward from the lower Scioto valley and the two went on together to the "Monongahela country."

A clew to its eastern course was found in Hildreth's Pioneer Sketches. The doctor told of visiting a patient near "Dry Ridge," where the old path to the Monongahela country ran on the watershed between the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers. My route was by rail and then by horse, and I soon