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turning, serpentine route, following the same 

 lines that the Indians had found, those of least 

 resistance to foot travel. Then came the new, 

 direct roads from town to town, and the ap- 

 proximately geometric marking of farm boun- 

 daries. From the Indian trail to the bicycle- 



path seems an indefinitely long time, but there 

 are people living who have seen one-half of it 

 My recovered milestone faced the storms, but 

 saw little of the sunshine of more than one-half 

 of the last two centuries. The forest was too 

 dense for even summer sunbeams to penetrate. 



