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met and greeted many survivors of the battle. When: 

 he arose to perform his part of the ceremony the en- 

 thusiasm knew no bounds. He stood silent for minutes 

 before the mass of cheering people. Tears coursed 

 down his cheeks. Here was the apotheosis toward 

 which all previous manifestations of appreciation and 

 gratitude had been tending. — Christian Science Mon- 

 itor. 



About the old forest road there was ever much 

 speculation by modern nimrods,fishermen and campers, 

 who chanced to follow it a short distance, through a 

 forest that was primeval, previous to 1890, and many 

 explanations of the cause for it; some said Alexander 

 McClain built it in 1788, when the surveys of the land 

 were first made to establish certain transit lines, by 

 ''monuments on the land,'' from ^Vhich to make maps 

 and locate the streams upon certain sections, or war- 

 rants, as plotted on the maps, and given numbers, as 

 sold. 



Some called it the "Boone Road," and believed that 

 emigrants to Kentucky, soon after the Revolution, had 

 constructed it to descend the Allegheny upon timber 

 rafts, and in canoes, from Kinzua ; and some called 

 it '^The French Road," giving its origin a military bias, 

 with the explanation that, during the French and In- 

 dian war, between 1755 and 1763, the French soldiers, 

 scouts and voyagers had cut a road, to secure supplies 

 over, from Frenchville and other Pennsylvania towns, 

 to support the occupation near Lake Erie, during 

 winters when the lake was closed. 



