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PIONEER ROADS
the backbone[1] & descended into Ryans glade.[2]—Thence by Thos. Logston's . . to the foot of the backbone, about 5 Miles . . across the Ridge to Ryans glade one mile and half . . —to Joseph Logstons 1½ Miles . .—to the No. Branch at McCullochs path 2 Miles[3]—infamous road—and to Thos. Logstons 4 more. . . 27th. I left Mr. Logston's . . —at ten Miles I had . . gained the summit of the Alligany Mountain[4] and began to desend it where it is very steep and bad to the Waters of Pattersons Creek . . along the heads of these [tributaries], & crossing the Main [Patterson's] Creek &
- ↑ Great Back Bone Mountain, Garrett County, Maryland, on which, at Altamont, the Baltimore and Ohio Railway reaches its highest altitude. It was about here that Washington now crossed it, probably on the watershed between Youghiogheny and Potomac waters west of Altamont.
- ↑ Ryan's Glade No. 10, Garrett County.
- ↑ This point is pretty definitely determined in the Journal. We are told that the mouth of Stony River (now Stony Creek) was four miles below McCulloch's crossing. This would locate the latter near the present site of Fort Pendleton, Garrett County, Maryland, the point where the old Northwestern Turnpike crossed the North Branch.
- ↑ Greeland Gap, Grant County, West Virginia.
