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Rh of two races—one of which opened and conquered an empire, another which settled it and is making it what the Creator purposed.

The great road broken open by Colonel Henry Bouquet in Pontiac's Rebellion, from the Ohio to and down the Muskingum river to Coshocton, Ohio, can easily be followed and mapped throughout its length. It is one of the most historic routes of the Central West, for Bouquet followed the Great Trail closely. Following the northwest shore of the Ohio to the mouth of Big Beaver, this highway takes to the northwest from that point (as the fastest trains from Pittsburg to Cleveland do today), and goes on to the watershed between the Beaver river and Yellow creek. It passes north of New Lisbon, Ohio, into the Big Sandy valley. Passing near Bayard it runs by way of Pekin (now Minerva, Stark county), Waynesville, and Sandyville—crossing Nimishillen creek half a mile above Sandyville—and comes to the Tuscarawas at the "Crossing-place of the Muskingum," at Bolivar. From this point Bouquet turned southward, but the Great Trail ran west-