brother, Mr. Bent, &c., accompanied us over the river[1] to Sargent's or Williams's, and took leave of us about nine o'clock, and we proceeded on our journey. We had gone but a little way when we found the path[2] so blind that we could not proceed with certainty, and I was obliged to go back and get a young man to come and show us the way. When we had got back to our companions again, they had found the road, and we walked twenty miles this day. Weather raw, chilly, and a little snow. The country after about five or six miles from the Ohio is very broken and uneven, with high and sharp hills.
"Tuesday, 9 March, 1790. The weather for the most part of the day pleasant, but cold winds, northerly. The country very rough, the hills high and sharp.[3] One third of the road must go over and on the ridges, and another third through the val-
- ↑ They crossed, the Ohio River to the present site of Williamstown, West Virginia, named from the brave and good pioneer Isaac Williams.
- ↑ The Monongahela Trail; see Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, pp. 122–124.
- ↑ For an early (1826) map of this region that is reasonably correct, see Herman Böye's Map of Virginia in Massachusetts Historical Society Library.
