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Rh Town (Raystown) to the Forks of the Youghiogheny and on to the site of Fort Duquesne. This branch became the historic route through this region, but the Kittanning path was probably the important Indian thoroughfare. The upper Allegheny contained a far heavier Indian population than the lower Allegheny; Céloron found no Indian village at the junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny.

The Iroquois Trail was, in the main, a war trail rather than a trading path. On the other hand, the Kittanning path was preëminently a traders' route. It was over the Kittanning Path and its branches that Post came in 1758 with "a large white belt, with the figure of a man at each end, and streaks of black representing the road from the Ohio to ."

One of the most important Indian paths in America, if indeed it was not the most