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130 lections of youth which so many elderly persons possess, he remembered that it was used even by the old-time traveling circuses which were wont to come that way. He also informed me that if I would follow the path steadily I would find myself at length in a traveled road. And, on the day following, as I pursued the course, his words proved true and I suddenly came into a traveled road. The old highway was still in use as far as a farm-house located at a distance from the main highway. It was not blocked up, for many still use the old road as a footpath across the hills.

For the explorer of old highways there is perhaps no spot in America which can equal in romance and interest the three great pathways, one built upon the other, which wind through the Alleghanies of northwestern Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania, from the Potomac to the Ohio river. Each of these paths was an important item in great campaigns, and the course leads on through scenes as memorable as any on this continent. You may follow any one of the three courses—that of the Indian path, over the summits of the