A little farther on the black muck road leads between the canal and towpath high up on the left, and a high board fence protecting the railroad tracks on the right; in other words, the highway was the low ground between two elevations.

The principal highway thus established was the Cumberland road from the Potomac to the Ohio.

On Castle hill (take road to left where the highway from Bridgwater forks at the sign-post) are the foundations and ramparts of a castle, the last owner of which, James, Lord Audley, was executed for supporting Perkin Warbeck.

The chief highway was the Ohio River; for to drift down stream in a scow was easier and quicker, and no more dangerous, than to plod through thick mountain forests.

There were few railways in those days; the highways were still the great arteries of traffic.

" Very frequently the winter highways of the Yukon valley are mere trails, traversed only by dog-sledges.