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But the version of certain old men, dwelling in La- 

 fayette township and vicinity, in 1889, gave it as out- 

 lined in the beginning of this chapter, which the writer 

 beleved then ; and has found no records that dispute it. 

 Ordinary histories give few details of the great forest 

 pageants, of our earlier times, while often giving great 

 space to unimportant occurrences, along the seaboard 

 and within our great cities. It is difficult, now, to 

 decide definitely, as to the uses of the road, here men- 

 tioned, and all of the tales of it may have been found- 

 ed upon facts, in each case ; for each purpose, it may 

 have been used. Westward voyagers, in 1788, made 

 canoes near Port Allegheny, Canoe Place, and descend- 

 ed the river. They traveled up the Sinnemahoning, 

 over the divide, and down Portage Creek, to ''Canoe 

 Place." 



