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PIONEER ROADS
ferry the Laurel Hill[1] is assended . . along the top of it the Road continues. . . After crossing this hill the road is very good to the ford of Sandy Creek at one James Spurgeons,[2] . . abt. 15 Miles from Ice's ferry. At the crossing of this Creek McCullocks path, which owes its origen to Buffaloes, being no other than their tracks from one lick to another & consequently crooked & not well chosen, strikes off from the New Road. . . From Spurgeon's to one Lemons, which is a little to the right of McCullochs path, is reckoned 9 Miles, and the way not bad; but from Lemons to the entrance of the Yohiogany glades[3] which is estimated 9 Miles more thro' a deep rich Soil . . and what is called the briery Mountain.[4] . . At the entrance of
- ↑ The mountainous boundary line between Monongalia and Preston Counties.
- ↑ Bruceton's Mills, Grant Township, Preston County, West Virginia?
- ↑ Southwestern corner of Maryland, some twenty miles north of Oakland.
- ↑ Briery Mountain runs northeast through the eastern edge of Preston County, bounding Dunkard Bottom on the east as Cheat River bounds it on the west.
