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Show i8oo] ROUTES OP TRAVEL 27 Joseph to the Kankakee; but that from the St. Joseph to the Wabash was the principal channel of supplies for the early settlers at Vincennes. On account of the hostility of the Iroquois Indians, the portages from Lake Erie were not much used until the eighteenth century, but later became of great importance. On the west there was one well- known and much- frequented portage from the Maumee to the Wabash which varied from eight to twenty miles in length. Its eastern end is marked by the present town of Fort Wayne. Two portages led from the Maumee to Loramie Creek, a branch of the Great Miami. General Wayne built Port Loramie near the southern end of these portages in 1794. Other carries were from the Sandusky to the Scioto; from the Cuyahoga, near the present city of Akron, Ohio, to the Tuscarawas and the Muskingum, and from the neighborhood of Ravenna to the Mahoning; from Lake Erie at Presque Isle ( the present site of Erie) to the French Creek and the Alleghany; and from Lake Erie to Chautauqua Lake and thence to the Alleghany River. 1 The carry around Niagara Falls was, of course, much used, though there was another route from Lake Ontario by portage to Grand River and thence to Lake Erie. One of the most important portages in the early history of the colonies was the " Onei$ Ja," which varied with the stage of the water from four to 1 Young, Hist, of Chautauqua County, 37- 44. |