240 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



over or around as well as one can. Those inhabitants 

 more familiar with the country trouble themselves verv 



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little about beaten roads. Through the woods, for the 

 most part clear of undergrowth ; guided by the sun, 

 the course of the streams, the appearance of the trees, 

 they travel straight to the place they are going and 

 seldom lose their way. In the less travelled regions 

 and along roads leading to remote dwellings or other 

 places, the way is marked by long, broad cuts in the 

 trees ; the white wood is even to be discerned at night. 

 This method was originally adopted from fear of 

 getting lost in the forest. Roads thus marked are 

 called ' blazed paths.' 



In the afternoon we arrived at the house and mill of 

 a Colonel Berry. A few miles farther on, at a Cap- 

 tain's, we asked quarters for the night, but he having 

 nothing for man or beast directed us a mile beyond to 

 Salisbury or Millerstown. This town of the future 

 consists at this time of one house only, where we had 

 the good fortune to be taken in, the owner first pro- 

 testing at length that the Captain had called his house 

 a tavern when he had no provisions. The region has 

 been settled only 8-10 years; was it older most of the 

 people would not have been frightened off by the last 

 war. Several persons are living in the neighborhood 

 who have been scalped by the Indians ; when these 

 make hasty attacks or are in dread of resistance, they 

 often do not take the time to see whether the scalped 

 is actually dead, caring only for the sign of victory, 

 snatched hurriedly. We were shown a girl whose 

 scalp-marks after six years were not completely cured ; 

 doubtless from lack of good treatment. 



From Millerstown it is still 32 miles to the Ohio 



