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Rh at last repaid, after a six mile tramp, by finding the gentleman I sought. At his home, beside a roaring threshing machine, I learned the course of the ancient highway—of which the county records at New Philadelphia make no mention, though dates there recorded went back into the eighteenth century. Descending the Tuscarawas on the western bank from the "Crossing-place of the Muskingum," it crossed Sugar creek near the present site of Canal Dover. Stone creek was crossed near its mouth, as was Old Town creek. From that point the trail took to the highland farms of A. W. Patrick, A. Rupert, David Anderson, Elia Mathias, Chas. Kinsey, P. F. Kinsey, the Sweitzer heirs. It crossed Frye's creek and went on the farms of B. Gross and Mr. Wyant, and from there followed the Tuscarawas to the site of the Moravian town Salem (now Port Washington). Thence it turned westward to the hills near Chili and into Coshocton county, where was the Delaware capital Gosh-goshing, the modern Coshocton. As a highway, this old route was deserted during my old guide's boyhood—but with the vivid recol-