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Owing to tlio topography the roads are serpentine; since the bi rock is of shale and friahle sandstone chiefly, good road material scarce; furthermore, the people are poor, and what we thoughtless. term shiftless and ignorant ; therefore, their highways are in a iiio; wretehed rondition.

��Via. 1. RiBiiK-KVK ViKB- OF TiiR KENTUCKY Moi'NiAIN REnlON, biKed upon the Ivpntucky Geoln^lcnl Hurray and Ibe lopogrnpblc mnps of the U. R. G. 8. The pitent of riDp Mountain slioH-n In alioul 00 mlLea. Tbe key to the mnp tullows : l. Itlockie; 2, Buokborn: 3, t'umherlnnd Gnp ; 4, Cumlierliind Mountain; n, Cunibcrlnnd Rfver; 6. Grrnay Crrrk : T. Illndmnn ; 8. JpDklnB ; 0. LeTisa Fork. Big i^nnily River; in, Une Fork: 11. Mlddlesboro; 12. Middle Fork Kentucky River: 13, North Fork Kentucky River: H, Oneida: 15, I'lne Mountain; 10, Pine Mountain I'ostofflc-e: 17, Plntrllle Gnp; 18, Pound Gop ("Trail of the Lonesome Pine"); 19, prestonliurg ; 20, Bfd Elver; L'l. South Furk Kentucky River.

��In the si.\tofiitli century, James I. introduced Scotch settlers into noitiiern Ireland, who heeanie the Seoich-Irish, Some of them emi- grated to America ; and their descendents, augmented by English, native

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