Thus, with the English flag afloat at Fort Pitt, as Duquesne was
renamed after its capture, a new day dawned for the great region
to the West
Thus, with the English flag afloat at Fort Pitt, as Duquesne was
renamed after its capture, a new day dawned for the great region
to the West. Beyond the Alleghanies and as far as the Rockies, a
new science of transportation was now to be learned–the art of
finding the dividing ridge. Here the first routes, like the
‘Great Trail’ from Pittsburgh to Detroit, struck out with an
assurance that is in marvelous agreement with the findings of the
surveyors of a later day. The railways, when they came, found the
valleys and penetrated with their tunnels the watersheds from the
heads of the streams of one drainage area to the streams of
another. Thus on the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio, the
Southern, the Chesapeake and Ohio, and other railroads, important
tunnels are to be found lying immediately under the Red Man”s
trail which clung to the long ascending slope and held
persistently to the dividing ridges.
