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limbed hunters who first built their lonely cabins on 

 the Cumberland and Kentucky. The founders of 

 Marietta trusted largely to the Federal troops for 

 protection, and were within easy reach of the set 

 tled country ; but the wild wood- wanderers who first 

 roamed through the fair lands south of the Ohio 

 built their little towns in the heart of the wilderness, 

 many scores of leagues from all assistance, and 

 trusted solely to their own long rifles in time of 

 trouble. The settler of 1788 journeyed at ease over 

 paths worn smooth by the feet of many thousands 

 of predecessors; but the early pioneers cut their 

 own trails in the untrodden wilderness, and warred 

 single-handed against wild nature and wild man. 



In the summer of 1788 Dr. Manasseh Cutler vis 

 ited the colony he had helped to found, and kept a 

 diary of his journey. His trip through Pennsyl 

 vania was marked merely by such incidents as were 

 common at that time on every journey in the United 

 States away from the larger towns. He traveled 

 with various companions, stopping at taverns and 

 private houses ; and both guests and hosts were fond 

 of trying their skill with the rifle, either at a mark 

 or at squirrels. In mid-August he reached Coxe's 

 fort, on the Ohio, and came for the first time to the 

 frontier proper. Here he embarked on a big flat- 

 boat, with on board forty-eight souls all told, be 

 sides cattle. They drifted and paddled down stream, 

 and on the evening of the second day reached the 

 Muskingum. Here and there along the Virginian 

 shore the boat passed settlements, with grain fields 



