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  • Plessis, Bishop, quoted, 7, 100–101.
  • Plumer's, 10, 159.
  • Pogue, William, emigrates to Kentucky, 6, 117.
  • Point Pleasant (West Virginia), Battle of, 6, 86–87.
  • "Point of Rocks," conflict between Baltimore and Ohio Railway and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on right of way at, 13, 115–119.
  • Pollan, Henry, 5, 84.
  • Polls, George, 4, 76, 88.
  • Pond, Capt. Peter, spy among northwestern Indians, 8, 164.
  • Pond, Major, in Harmar's campaign, 8, 88.
  • Pontiac: religious convictions of, 5, 168; arouses Indians, 169; conspiracy of, 170–182.
  • Pope, Ensign, testimony of, 8, 126.
  • PORTAGE PATHS—
  • In General: buffalo traces at, 1, 139; classification of, 2, 53; 7, 23; missionaries traverse, 22; typical experiences of missionaries on, 25–31; explorer's use of, 21, 31–37; New France and Louisiana joined by, 37; meeting-places on, 37–42; circumstances determined routes of, 38–40; camping grounds on, 41–42; alternations of, 42–43; burying grounds near, 43; altars erected on, 43–44; difficulties of,