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he went again with quite a party on horseback, and in the party 

 were John Bartram and Lewis Evans. The latter made a map of 

 the route, the former wrote the itinerary. In 1745 Bishop Spangen- 

 berg came over much the same route, and his party also rode. In 

 1750 Bishop Cammerhoff and Zeisberger tried a different course, 

 coming in canoes as far as Waverly on the Chemung river, and 

 going thence to Cayuga on horseback. While previous travelers 

 had gone by way of Owego creek and Cortland county, they fol- 

 lowed Wynkoop creek, passed Cayuta lake, reached the site of 

 Ithaca, and went down the east side of Cayuga lake to the Cayuga 

 towns. All of these journals are of interest, but while some parts 

 of the route are easily recognized, some are hard to identify, nor 

 was the path always quite the same, even in going and returning. 

 Between Bartram's account of the road and that of Spangenberg 

 there is quite a difference, though they had the same guides and 

 made the trip but two years apart. 



Each may be summarized after leaving Owego. Bartram's gen- 

 eral course was on the east side of Owego and West creeks, crossing 

 a steep hill to a tributary of Fall creek, and passing some ponds in 

 the town of Cortland. From the site of Homer he followed the 

 west branch of the Tioughnioga, seeing Mount Toppin but not the 

 ponds near by, and crossed to a branch of the Susquehanna rising 

 in Pompey. Part of Pompey hill was crossed and the Indian vil- 

 lage in La Fayette visited. The Onondaga valley was entered from 

 the southeast. The route was slightly changed on the return, and 

 a branch trail led to Onaquaga. 



In his notes on Spangenberg's journey in 1745, Mr John W r . 

 Jordan made his route up Owego and Catatonk creeks, leaving the 

 latter above Candor, crossing Ganatowcherage or West creek in 

 Richford township, passing over Prospect hill in Harford and a 

 creek in Virgil which is an affluent of Fall creek, and reaching 

 Crandall's pond in Cortland. It may be that the route was up West 

 creek instead of Catatonk, as in Bartram's route. From Crandall's 

 pond or Lake Ganiataragachrachat they went to Big lake or 

 'Ganneratareske in Preble, and thence to Oserigooch, the largest lake 



