_Feet_
Summit of Wills mountain 581.
Western foot of same 304.4
Summit of Savage mountain 2,022.24
Savage river 1,741.6
Summit Little Savage mountain 1,900.4
Branch Pine Run, first Western water 1,699.9
Summit of Red Hill (afterwards called shades of death) 1,914.3
Summit Little Meadow mountain 2,026.16
Little Youghiogheny river 1,322.6
East Fork of Shade run 1,558.92
Summit of Negro mountain, highest point[3] 2,328.12
Middle branch of White's creek, at the west foot of Negro
mountain 1,360.5
White's creek 1,195.5
Big Youghiogheny river 645.5
Summit of ridge between Youghiogheny river and Beaver waters 1,514.5
Beaver Run 1,123.8
Summit of Laurel Hill 1,550.16
Court House in Uniontown 274.65
A point ten feet above the surfaceof low water in the
Monongahela river, at the mouth of Dunlap's creek 119.26
"The law requiring the commissioners to report such parts of the route
as are laid on the old road, as well as those on new grounds, and to
state those parts which require the most immediate attention and
amelioration, the probable expense of making the same passable in the
most difficult parts, and through the whole distance, they have to state
that, from the crooked and hilly course of the road now traveled, the
new route could not be made to occupy any part of it (except an
intersection on Wills mountain, another at Jesse Tomlinson's, and a
third near Big Youghiogheny, embracing not a mile of distance in the
whole) without unnecessary sacrifices of distances and expense.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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