...nothing like it in the United States. Leaping the Ohio at Wheeling, the National Road throws itself across Ohio and Indiana, straight as an arrow, like...bed, vaulting river and stream on massive bridges of unparalled size. The farther one travels upon it, the more impressed one must become, for there is,...

...nothing like it in the United States. Leaping the Ohio at Wheeling, the Xational road throws itself across Ohio and Indiana, straight as an arrow, like...at a blow, traversing the lowlands on high grades, vaulting over streams on massive bridges of unparalleled size."* Over it passed the pioneers who built...

...nothing like it in the United States. Leaping the Ohio at Wheeling, the Cumberland Road throws itself across Ohio and Indiana, straight as an arrow, like...and stream on massive bridges of unparalleled size. The farther one travels upon it, the more impressed one must become, for there is, in the long grades...

...nothing like it in the United States. Leaping the Ohio at Wheeling, the Cumberland Road throws itself across Ohio and Indiana, straight as an arrow, like...and stream on massive bridges of unparalleled size. The farther one travels upon it, the more impressed one must become, for there is, in the long grades...

...nothing like it in the United States. Leaping: the Ohio at Wheeling, the National Road rolls itself across Ohio and Indiana, straight as an arrow, like...high grades like a railroad bed, vaulting river and streams on massive bridges of unparalleled size. The farther one travels upon it, the more impressed...