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said to follow the old Indian path. This, for the most part, 
it no doubt did, as I shall presently note, but in this vicinity 
the road is evidently and naturally so placed as to give an easy 
slope for teaming up the steep wall of the valley to the higher 
ground, which forms a plateau nearly one hundred feet above 
the river level, though it is to be noted that it is not at all 
necesvsary that the path should have taken such a course. No 
direct evidence being thus available for the exact location of 
the path, we must turn to probabilities indicated by the nature 
of the locality; and fortunately these speak in no uncertain 
