It is said that some three hundred of them came over the mountains yearly, following the Susquehanna and the JunIATA and the headwaters of the Potomac to the tributaries of the Ohio, and visiting with their pack-horses the Indian villages along the valley.
"The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin"
Frederick Jackson Turner
The route to the Ohio River followed the Schuylkill for some thirty or forty miles, turned up one of its tributaries to its source, then crossed the watershed to the head of a stream flowing into the Susquehanna, thence to the JunIATA, at the head of which the trail led over a short divide to the head of the Conemaugh, which flowed into the Allegheny, and the Allegheny into the Ohio.
"The Quaker Colonies A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, Volume 8 in The Chronicles Of America Series"
Sydney G. Fisher