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Early Thoroughfares Westward, No. 2.

Name: The Iroquois Trail.
Termini: Hudson river and Niagara river.
Route: Ascended the Hudson and Mohawk valleys and took to the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Erie and those flowing into the Susquehanna and Allegheny, passing westward to the Niagara.
Remarks: The great watershed trail westward of the north, connecting the various doors of the "Long House," from the country of the Mohawks on the east to that of the Senecas in the far west. For best map, see Guy Johnson's.