Crossing at the mouth of the Little Kanawha (Parkersburg, West Virginia), it passes near the old "Neal's Station"—now Ewing's Station, on the Baltimore and Ohio railway—and goes north of Kanawha station and above Eaton's tunnel. There it takes to Dry Ridge, where Dr. Hildreth knew it, which it pursues to Doddridge county (West Virginia), through Martin's Woods and north of Greenwood to Center Station. From there it turns east to West Union tunnel (Gorham's or "No. 6"), and then on to the highland on the head of Middle Island creek. Reaching the watershed in Harrison county by way of Tom's Fork, it runs into the valley of Ten Mile creek, which it follows down into the Monongahela valley.
At one point a country road ascended Dry Ridge and crossed the old-time highway which courses along the summit. At the junction of the two routes stands an aged tree bearing on one side the bright, clean gash of the surveyor's ax, on the other the dark, half-healed blaze of the "Long-knives" of Virginia. These are the trade-marks of two centuries, the signs
