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Rivers
INDEX
129
early shipbuilding on, 135; in Washington's plan of communication, 13, 38–43.
- New: road to, 6, 55; Walker traverses, 55.
- Ohio: difficult early navigation of, 1, 62; French occupation of, 3, 63–84; Céloron on, 71–73; Captain Trent commissioned to build a fort on, 115; French troops on (1755), 4, 116–117; Virginia secures all land south of, 6, 23; Wilderness road compared with, 80–81; territory south of secured by Dunmore's War, 87; first gunboat on, 171; difficulty of early travel on, 179–181; area drained by, 9, 15; position explains importance in pioneer period, 16; name derivations, 17–21; discovery of, 7, 34; 9, 21; early description of, 9, 21; Céloron de Bienville starts for, 22; Bonnécamps's map of, 24; Céloron burying first plate on, 26; French claim attested by leaden plates, 27; Céloron's expedition, 28–47; Gordon's map of, 48; Céloron's relations to Indians on, 29–39; junction with Monongahela unmentioned by Céloron, 39–40; English traders warned by Céloron, 41; Logstown on, 41; victory of Gen. Andrew Lewis on, 49; as boundary line, 50; "Indian Side" of, 50; a projection of Mason and Dixon's line, 52; two shores differently settled, 52; illegal settle-
